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File Under Research: The Templar Diet

5/20/2018

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They had me at the Knights Templar. As a fan of Dan Brown's DaVinci Code and other thriller series discussing the Templar Knights, this Atlas Obscura article on what the Templar's ate is fascinating, especially considering the Templars lived considerably longer than their contemporaries.

The Templar diet was surprisingly modern. They ate meat no more than 3 days per week. The article mentions a Tuesday fast, so no food on that day (yikes!), which leaves Sunday, Thursday, and Friday as days for seared animal flesh. On Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, they ate mostly vegetables, eggs, cheese, and bread. Plus wine.

Let me see if I have this correct:
  • Sunday: Let them eat meat!
  • Monday: Veggie day.
  • Tuesday: Meat day, unless it's your fasting day; then, "No soup for you!"
  • Wednesday: Veggie day.
  • Thursday: Meat: Charred animal flesh.
  • Friday: Lenton fast (no animal products: eggs, milk, cheese, or meat), although they were allowed fish, and developed their own Almond Milk as a dairy substitute (and here I thought my almond milk creamer was a new idea). I think we can safely call this a Veggie day, although I wonder, is this the origin of Fish Friday during Lent?
  • Saturday: Veggie day

As they conclude in the Obscura article, "many of these rules resemble modern dietary advice: Lots of vegetables, meat on occasion, and wine in moderation."

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