SC - Watermelon
Philip W. Troy
troy at asan.com
Fri May 2 06:03:48 PDT 1997
david friedman wrote:
> And I saw a translation of Ibn
> Battuta which referred to peppers, in context vegetable peppers, in North
> Africa in the 14th century. I don't know what Ibn Battuta actually
> mentioned, but it wasn't capsicum, which is New World.
Yes, another example of this is the latest edition of the Larousse
Gastronomique, which repeatedly translates the term "long pepper" as
chilies...
Adamantius
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