Medieval Chefs...

[RDY4WAR]

I wonder how many chefs were executed in Medieval times because the king's food tester had an allergy?

 

[fantastic]

Seems dark...
Everyone?

 

[Quattro Pete]

There were no allergies back then.

 

[RDY4WAR]

There were no allergies back then.

There were, just more rare, but I'll play along and blame vaccines.

 

[CleanSump]

No kids died from eating peanut butter and gluten allergies didn't exist because Moms didn't invent diseases back then. If you couldn't eat bread you were already dead.

 

[goblin]

They were so inbred they all had the same allergies

Joke aside, in Feudal Japan and in Imperial China they were well aware of food allergies. They didn't know what caused them but knew about them. Then again, they dealt extensively with seafood and other cullinary unholly stuff.

In the Japanese movie "Love and Honor" a food taster almost dies because the chef prepared shellfish that was "out of season". This stuff is so tricky it is naturally poisonous at specific times of the year.

 

[fantastic]

They were so inbred they all had the same allergies

Joke aside, in Feudal Japan and in Imperial China they were well aware of food allergies. They didn't know what caused them but knew about them. Then again, they dealt extensively with seafood and other cullinary unholly stuff.

In the Japanese movie "Love and Honor" a food taster almost dies because the chef prepared shellfish that was "out of season". This stuff is so tricky it is naturally poisonous at specific times of the year.

Now there's the Japanese Centenarians that benefit from all the knowledge around sea food.