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A good cook is half a physician.

— Andrew Boorde

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Wine..moderately drunken...doth quicken a man's wits, it doth comfort the heart.

Beef is a good meat for an Englishman...it doth make an Englishman strong.

Fysshe may be sode, rosted, bruled & baken euery one after theyr kynde, & vse a fasshyon of the countre, as the coke and the phisicion wyll agre & deuyse. For a good coke is halfe a phisicion. For the chefe phisicke (the councell of a phisecion except) dothe come from the kytchyn, wherfore the phisicion and the coke for sicke men must consult togyther for the preparacion of meate for sicke men.

A Compendyous Regyment or Dyetary of Health (1542)

Beefe is good meate for & Englyssh man so be it the beest be yonge, & that it be nat cowe flesshe. For olde befe & cowe flesshe dothe ingēdre melancoly and leprouse bumours: yf it be moderatly poudered that the groose bloude by salte may be exaustyd, it doth make an Englysshe man strōge.

A Compendyous Regyment or Dyetary of Health (1542)

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