HERB - Timeline of Food
Christine A Seelye-King
mermayde at juno.com
Wed Jun 24 13:23:02 PDT 1998
I have been cruising through "The Timetables of History, A Horizontal
Linkage of People and Events" by Bernard Grun, based upon Werner Stein's
"Kulturfahrplan", published by Simon and Schuster in 1982. I was looking
for date confirmations for my holiday book, and I came across quite a few
food and plant entries I thought you might find interesting. Here goes:
Romans learn to use soap from the Gauls 50AD
Tamo brings tea from India to China 500
Sugar planted in Egypt 710
Hops as beer wort used for the first time in Bavaria 750
First reports of ergotism epidemics in Western Europe,
caused by poisoned grain 857
Calibrated candles used in England to measure the time 870
Cane sugar arrives in Venice from Alexandria 996
Munich becomes center of salt trade 1158
Tea arrives in Japan from China 1191
Indigo and Brazilwood imported into England for dyeing 1193
Cotton manufactured in Spain 1225
Linen first manufactured in England 1253
Lyons silk industry developed by Italian immigrants 1315
The Shogun of Japan prohibits the drinking of tea 1350
Mocha in SW Arabia becomes main port for coffee export 1450
Romano Pane, a monk who accompanied Columbus,
becomes the first to describe the tobacco plant 1496
Pineapples arrive in Europe 1514
Coffee in Europe for the first time 1517
Chocolate brought from Mexico to Spain 1520
Turkeys from S. America eaten for the first time at the
English Court 1524
Hops introduced to England from Artois 1525
India rubber mentioned for the first time 1536
First Christmas tree, at the Strassbourg Cathedral 1539
Guinea Pepper plant grown in England 1548
Tobacco brought for the first time to Spain from America 1555
Portuguese introduce Europeans to the habit of taking snuff 1558
Tobacco plant imported to W. Europe by Jean Nicot 1560
Sir John Hawkins introduces sweet potatoes and tobacco
into England 1565
Method perfected to bottle beer by Alexander Nowell,
Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral 1568
First German cane-sugar refinery at Augsburg 1573
Venice imports coffee from Turkey to Italy 1580
Italian cooking predominant in Europe 1580
Forks used for the first time at French Court 1589
Tomatoes introduced in England 1596
Tea from China shipped for the first time to Europe by
the Dutch East India Trading Co. 1609
Tobacco planted in Virginia 1612
Potaotes planted in Germany for the first time 1621
First Coffeeshop opens in London 1632
Tea first drunk in England 1650
Drinking Chocolate introduced in London 1657
Ice Cream becomes popular dessert in Paris 1677
I am fairly impressed with the credentials of the authors (multiple
checkers and translators) of this book. Most dates I found were right on
the money with other sources I had already. There were certain things I
didn't agree with, but they are going with the first written record of
things, (perfect for us!) and not necessarily when things first came into
use. This is intended to stimulate polite conversation, please don't
flame me. See above bibliographical information if you want to check it
out.
Mistress Christianna MacGrain, OP, Meridies
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