Eating Right in the Renaissance

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I owe a debt of gratitude to the many people who have helped me write this book, foremost to my family, both immediate and extended. Thanks to my parents Albert and Phyllis, my wife Joanna, my sons Ethan and Benjamin, my in-laws Mona and Ira, and Marcia and Hershey for foodie newsletters and old PPCs. You have all either put up with or inspired my passion for food, without which this book would have been unthinkable . I also thank the many people at Columbia who guided me on the first version of this work : Eugene Rice, Caroline Bynum, Wim Smit, and Kathy Eden, and particularly Nancy Siraisi, who has continued to be a professional inspiration. The curators and staff, both past and present— particularly Adrienne Fabio, Adrienne Levin, and Ann Pasquale—at the New York Academy of Medicine deserve special thanks for tolerating my presence for several years in the early 1990s. Above all thanks to Lois Black, who has remained a great friend and been an invaluable aid. Thanks to the staff at the Wellcome Institute in London and to Vivian Nutton whose comments and advice to “just do it” proved indispensable . Thanks also to those who have helped me at the Columbia Libraries, the Yale History of Medicine Library, and the Bodleian Library. Thanks to my chums from the Oxford Symposium, Andy Smith, David McDonald , and especially Rachel Laudan, who has probed me with questions and comments down to the very last minute. I would also like to thank the readers, Melitta Weiss Adamson and those anonymous others along the way. Your comments were extremely helpful, and I hope you will forvii give me for the occasions when I have not heeded your advice. To all my great friends and colleagues in the history department at the University of the Pacific, including those retired and new, you have made this an extremely pleasant place to work. I wish I had the space to name all of you individually. And thanks to my students who have kept me on my toes and indulged me in many digressions on food and medicine. Lastly, thanks to the editors at UC Press, Sheila Levine, Juliane Brand, Cindy Fulton, and series editor Darra Goldstein for helping make this book possible. viii Acknowledgments ...