SC - Watermelon
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Sun May 4 00:15:39 PDT 1997
At 10:32 AM -0600 5/3/97, S.Thomas wrote:
> david friedman wrote:
>>Ibn Battuta talks about delicious melons. It seems clear from that and
>>>other period Islamic references that there were a variety of different
>>old >world melons, many of which were not bitter. As to watermelon in
>>>particular, I can't say, but I see no reason to identify it with the
>>bitter >melon you mentioned. >David/Cariadoc
>><http://www.best.com/~ddfr/> >http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
> Your Grace - What about cantalope, etc? I have a couple of
>illustrations (from "Tacuinum Sanitatis") that say the object being held
>is "melon". It looks to be the size and shape of a cantalope, but
>..... In service, Morgan morgan at in-tch.com
I believe that muskmelon (which is what I believe cantelope is) is old world.
David/Cariadoc
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