sca-cooks changing plants and animals

[Philip W. Troy]

Mark Harris wrote:
> 
> Tibor said:
> 
> >I gather that carrots have changed, as well.  I'm sure meat animals are less
> >fatty and more meaty.
> 
> I remember carrots being discusses on the Riatlo several years ago.
> Apparently
> until a mutation very late in the Middle Ages carrots were white. (Yuck!) and
> I imagine, smaller.

Carrots in the Middle Ages appear to have been, essentially, parsnips
with a red skin like a radish. I understand that the major cause of
their being as they are today is nineteenth-century hybridization.

Adamantius