SC - Broccoli-a new world food?

[Decker, Terry D.]

> 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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