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It is
only in recent years that doctors and cooks have tried to understand
one another and have started to work together to integrate our eating
habits and lifestyles into a regimen intended to keep us healthy
and long-lived. Not that this is a new premise.
The
ancient Greek and Roman doctors, poets, and philosophers-from Hippocrates,
Seneca, and Archestratus to the School of Salemo's humoral theory
in the Middle Ages-incorporated food and medicine in a literature
that taught cooking as well as medicine.
The yin and
yang of the Chinese places great emphasis on food habits and well-being,
just as French gastronome Brillat-Savarin's aphorism "Tell
me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are" encompasses
today's notion that health is tightly interwoven with our consumption
of food. |
