[Sca-cooks] roman feast / Apicius
Johnna Holloway
johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Sun Mar 23 11:29:52 PDT 2008
Mistress Huette did a summary a few years back of orange carrots
appearing paintings.
Here is that post from 2006-- Johnnae
Someone commented
about the orange carrots, so I looked at more paintings done by Pieter Aertsen and Joachim
Beuckelaer and found 14 painting that had carrots of various colors in them. Some of the
white carrots might be turnips. It is hard for me to tell.
Huette
These have white carrots or perhaps turnips...
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=16236
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21319
These are hard to decide if they are white or orange...
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21617
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21611
These look more orange to me
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21613
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21614
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21618
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21619
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21327
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21318
These have purple, white and orange carrots
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21326
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21325
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21323
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21330
Dragon wrote:
> The carrot had spread to most of the rest of Continental Europe by
> the 14th century and Britain by the 15th. The orange carrots we know
> today are of Dutch origin and were selectively bread in the 17th and
> 18th centuries for that color.
>
> Dragon
>
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