SC - Cassoulet

[david friedman]

> much like the noodles that Marco Polo brought back from China,  >>

Meaning that the common use of new world beans in 16th century Europe is as
mythical as the attribution of noodles to Marco Polo?

The earliest post-Roman European cookbooks we have are roughly contemporary
with Marco Polo, and contain pasta. So do Islamic cookbooks from pre-Marco
Polo. I don't know what the origin of this particular belief is, but it
seems very unlikely that it is true.


David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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