SC - RE: running a feast

[Mary Morman]

In a message dated 10/13/99 6:57:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mprevost-hart at home.com writes:

<< I believe that rhubarb leaves are very poisonous, to the point that rhubarb
 was avoided except for medicinal use, and then there were all kinds of
 strictures. >>

A good point. However, eggplant was readily consumed as food and it's stems 
and leaves are equally poisonous. It can be assumed that, as with many 
foodstuffs, the poisonous properties of the leaves and the edibility of the 
stalk would have been perceived at the beginning through the experience of 
dropping over dead or getting deathly ill if the wrong part was eaten.

Ras
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