SC - OT- Cooks in the family, gentlemen of the list

[Marilyn Traber]

I'd love to see the documentation on this.  Sad that there aren't any
documentable recipes... could it be the plants were grown for ornament
instead of food?  curious.

meadhbh
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From: LrdRas at aol.com <LrdRas at aol.com>
To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: SC - Period Chili


>In a message dated 1/12/99 7:28:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, meadhbh at io.com
>writes:
>
><< wish there was but there isn't. mostly due to the fact that the chili
> peppers were not available during that time period. oh, how i wish they
> were!!! >>
>
>Actually your wish is granted. Capsicums were one of the first New World
foods
>introduced by Columbus. Although there are no recipes that I am aware of
from
>pre-1600 C.E., they most certainly were known and being grown in the
>Mediterranean Valley well at least 75 yrs. before then. I have read and
can't
>locate the source, unfortunately, that capsicums were a major agricultural
>crop in the Mediterranean valley by 1523. Until I locate the source of that
>information (which I think was in one of the USDA Agricultural Yearbooks),
I
>would take it with a grain of salt.
>
>However, there is little reason to believe that they were not being grown
as a
>novelty at least. But then again so weren't tomatoes and potatoes which
were
>not widely eaten either.
>
>Ras
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