SC - Broccoli-a new world food?
Stapleton, Jeanne
jstaplet at mail.law.du.edu
Fri Oct 30 11:34:11 PST 1998
> That said, I was almost certain the broccoli was new. So new in fact
> that I learned this when I read of the death of the Italian immigrant
> who bred it and for whom it is named. I suppose it is possible that he
> simply named a particular variation that gained popularity in this
> century.
>
> Bonne
>
Trager's The Food Chronology places broccoli in Rome in the 3rd Century, has
it introduced to France via Catherine d' Medici, and intorduced to England
in 1721. While I distrust Trager as a single source, I've seen other
references which roughly agree with this.
Bear
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