Search

It is fascinating that so much of the descriptive pathology appears to have originated in the kitchen. The evidence is plain to the past medical students of the older textbooks of general pathology from an era dominated by male pathologists. It is curious that in modern times it is no longer trendy to use the cook's vocabulary when more and more pathologists are women.One wonders how often the mortuary apron was changed for the kitchen variety to transform into the naked chef, or has there always been a good wife behind the pathologist. The tabby cat must have wandered into the kitchen when the pathologist was trying to imagine the tabby heart in anaemia. An amusing spin is that the red kidney bean would not have been so named but for the clinical gourmet at the kitchen table.A compilation of delightful culinary ingredients has been prepared in alphabetical order and served up with the associated morbid anatomical diagnosis. The author would be grateful for other interesting gems from the cookery book which can be added on to the list.