SC - FoodTV (long!)

Christine A Seelye-King mermayde at juno.com
Tue Dec 19 09:00:32 PST 2000


I had forgotten the Taciunum Sanitatas.  I was thinking about some quotes I
came across in a history of the banana and the commercial banana trade (from
about 1929 and long out of print).  I didn't go looking for the sources at
the time, and I can't recall if the information made it into my notes.

Bear

> _The Four Seasons of the House of Cerruti_ is based on an Arab text, 
> of which I think the Latin version is Taciunum Sanitatas. It mentions 
> bananas as being grown in Sicily, I believe, but the picture was 
> pretty clearly drawn by someone who had never seen one.
> -- 
> David Friedman


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