SC - PawPaws

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/27/00 5:42:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
tinyzoo at aracnet.com writes:

<< I believe Pawpaws are a new-world food, >>

This is true but since the New World was settled well within period, it's 
discussion is not out of place, IMO. Oftentimes in the spring we discuss 
garden matters such as varieties and availability of plants, sources of seeds 
and/or plants, and many other aspects of medieval agriculture and growing 
period plants in the modern garden. Animal husbandry also is occasionally 
discussed with the same purposes in mind. Many on the list actually grow and 
use some of the foods they serve at feasts or small gatherings and the 
sharing of agricultural information is invaluable toward creating the 
understanding that medieval society and economics was based on agriculture 
unlike modern society.

Ras