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Week 6: Medical Theory and Diet

Readings:

Reay Tannahill, Food in History, pp. 141-151 (Chap. 11: “The Arab World”)

Margaret Visser, Much Depends on Dinner, pp. 259-284 (Chap. 8: “Lemon Juice: A Sour Note”)

E. N. Anderson, “Traditional Medical Values of Food,” in Food and Culture: A Reader, ed. Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik (New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 80-91.

Ronald L. LeBlanc, “Tolstoy’s Way of All Flesh: Abstinence, Vegetarianism, and Christian Physiology,” in Musya Glants and Joyce Toomre, eds., Food in Russian History and Culture(Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997), pp. 81-102.

Alan Davidson, “Not Yogurt with Fish,” in idem, A Kipper with My Tea: Selected Food Essays(London: Macmillan, 1988), pp. 149-51.

Images:

The four humors
Pangolin
Racoon dog
Count Leo Tolstoy in 1910
Citron (etrog)

Lemon houses on Lake Garda:
https://www.garda-outdoors.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/31344_limonaia_pra_de_la_famjpg-1024×683.jpeg

 

Videos:

“The Road to Wellville” (trailer, 2:20 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc2c4X3gKgQ

John Harvey Kellogg and Adventism (from PBS documentary, 3:37 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JORD9TAsT3o

shakin’ the lulav and etrog (1:13 min.)

Ushpizin (The Guests, trailer, 1:28 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I98QNhD8TQo

… and full film, with subtitles in Spanish (92 min.; watch from 1:25-3:40 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB2FzuZsx3Y&list=PL425718CA896836CF

Sukkot and the Four Species Market (2:51)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEHE3OtPxfU

Count Leo Tolstoy: clip from film The Last Station (with Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren, 1:25 min.)