Bananas (was RE: SC - Hummus and Other Questionably Period Foods)

[Philip & Susan Troy]

david friedman wrote:
> 
> Taciunem Sanitatas, which is a 14th c. latin book based on an Arabic
> original, has a picture of bananas by someone who has clearly never seen
> one, and says they are grown in Sicily. Sicily had been Muslim, was
> conquered by by Normans in, I think, the 12th c., but may still have been
> to some degree culturally Muslim later.

Offhand, do you recall the dates for which Sicily and [I think]
Catalonia were, for practical purposes, one kingdom? King Fernando,
etc.? That might be one explanation for Muslim influences on Sicily.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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