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While
researching for my book, I often come across wonderful and thought provoking
ideas, such as the work of Paul Freedman.
Therefore, I needed to share this with you. Needless to say that I highly
recommend his book.
"In
the medieval Christian tradition, gluttony was one of the seven deadly sins,
along with what now seem the more serious transgressions of pride, sloth,
anger, envy, covetousness and lust.” …
“Yet
gluttony, however frivolous it may seem in comparison with the dangers of
greed, for example, is if anything a more prominent preoccupation now than
during the Middle Ages. The average affluent person today spends more time
worrying about what might be broadly defined as the category of gluttony (diet,
body fat, nutrition versus self indulgence) that about pride and covetousness
(which are perhaps not even vices now according to general opinion).” —Paul Freedman*
*Paul
Freedman, Out of
the East: Spices and The Medieval Imagination. Yale University
Press. 2008. Pages 50-51
