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It’s clear from William’s writings how much he enjoyed food and drink and regarded them as gifts of God. Like any gifts, they could be used for ill as well as good, when human beings fell into drunkenness or gluttony, which opened the door for the devil to enter: those who worship their stomach as a God see their future at the bottom of a latrine. He regularly uses analogies drawn from cooking when he talks about religion, and employs an extended metaphor of a city as a mill, where God’s corn is ground to feed the world. He employs the many uses of salt as examples of goodness in religious life. He is interested in the properties of the salty sea, and why sea fish taste different from their freshwater cousins. He employs extended metaphors drawn from fishing to talk about preaching, and likens confession to the act of vomiting. Food and drink were to be enjoyed with ceremony, which included tablecloths, cutlery, and table manners. He compares Jewish and Muslim ideas of clean and unclean foods to Christian practice.
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