“Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because they be windy and do engender impure humours and for that cause provoke bodily lust.” ThinkingCausesFoodHumourCookingLustSymbolsCulinaryInterpretationProvokingForbiddenBeansWindy Author:Richard Taverner