SC - Fw: [Mid] Re: Your dinner is what?

[Alderton, Philippa]

Do we know what type these might have been?

phlip at morganco.net

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider that cain't be throwed.

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: Date: Monday, January 19, 1998 10:29:02 
: From: Christine a Seelye-king
: To: Middlebridge
: Subject: [Mid] Re: Your dinner is what?
: 
: 
: >Ah, if only they'd had capsicums in the Middle Ages.
: >
: >Angelica Paganelli
: 
: 	Rest assured my Lady, they did indeed!  My Lord is known to his
: friends as 'Deadtongue' and has done quite a bit of research into the
: firey fruit.  Columbus mentions them in the log from his first voyage. 
: He set out looking for spices from the Indies, and so when he landed, he
: inquired as to any article that could be used as a spice or condiment. 
: From Haiti, he concluded he had found a new type of pepper, stating "From
: this island alone, 50 caravels of this article could be loaded every
: year." 
: ("Columbus Menu -Italian Cuisine after the First Voyage of Christopher
: Columbus" by Stafano Milioni)   His physician included the capsicum
: pepper in his diary as a medicinal, and samples were brought back on the
: first return trip.  
: 	I suppose if you are sticking to the strict definition of the
: Middle Ages your lament is well founded, but in our period,   tongues
: were burnin'!
: 
: 		Mistress Christianna MacGrain
: 		Lady to Lord Damon Fox, called Deadtongue
: 	
: From:  mermayde at juno.com (Christine a Seelye-king)
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