User talk:Beccamiller14/sandbox

--Ads695 (talk) 20:15, 15 November 2017 (UTC)Potential topics for wiki page Mushrooms: Add a Middle Ages history of mushrooms: Was particularly interested in the Laudan article about the Humors and the risk of eating mushrooms on the humoral system of humans. Interested in adding a history and importance of mushrooms in the middle ages to the mushroom page as it seemed to be a vital piece of the humoral theory as well as the construction of the diet in the Western world in the middle ages.

Garum: Interested in adding a section to the garum page about the hierarchy of garum as well as its rejection in early christianity — attempted to do so for previous wiki assignment. Feel as though the garum page is severely lacking in the social importance that we’ve spent so long covering.

Colatura di Alici: this topic was very interesting to me post Ryan’s discussion of the sauce in recitation. It is missing huge chunks of information — and is important to food history as this acts as the modern day example of Garum.

Ashleigh's Peer Review
Hi Becca! I'm adding my comments on your work below:

I think you've done a great job so far! You utilize an appropriate academic, neutral voice while engaging the reader. I've added some suggestions in bold in your work below:

"In what is now Western Europe, and in particular Britain, Humorism had a main influence on the diets of citizens. Galen, an early founder of medical theory, popularized the notion that the balance of the humors, Black Bile, Yellow Bile, Blood and Phlegm, led to an individual's healthy diet (overall health). These four liquids, or humors, existed in each human. Humoral theory relied on maintaining a constitution that balanced the humors, each of which correlated to a descriptive nature -- wet, cold, hot, and dry [3]. Each individual was given a temperament based on a doctor's understanding of the individual's physical and mental wellbeing. The ideal state for individuals varied on their temperaments, however humans were supposed to balance their diets in order to balance their temperaments to ideally maintain a warm and dry constitution.[4].

Certain foods in the Middle Ages were restricted because of their negative impacts on an individual's constitution in relation to their humors. Mushrooms were seen as harmful to the humors because of their wet and cold physical properties. Rachel Laudan, a food historian, explained that through from the consumption of mushrooms, humorism and the balance of the humors the humors and the balance of them could be greatly affected , which could and lead to major health issues in the individuals who ate them. Melon shared a similar constitution to mushrooms, and were also to be avoided [5]."

Some additional suggestions: You probably have more to expand on it, but at the moment, I'm not sure how much the last sentence adds to the topic of edible mushrooms and humorism in the middle ages. While reading, I a few questions came to mind. For instance, did everyone across all classes or socioeconomic groups and nations in Europe avoid mushrooms? Were they used medicinally, like if a humor was too hot and dry? Also, I wonder how these historical views in the middle ages affected the consumption of mushrooms afterwards, and even in present day? Also, possibly expanding on the topics you've started to touch upon with other sources may be something to look into. Also, a few sentences are missing citations where they are needed. For instance, the first two sentences of the first paragraph (is citation #4 supposed to cover them?) and the first sentence of the sendond (is citation #5 supposed to cover it?). Overall, you are off to a great start! I look forward to see where your work goes from here.

Ads695 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2017 (UTC)