SC - New World Foods-list

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/11/00 11:39:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US writes:

<< Vigna sinensis (includes yard-long beans and black-eyed peas) were eaten in
 Italy by the 16th Century and probably were earlier.  There is a school of
 thought which equates them to the "kidney beans" in Platina. >>

<sigh> I guess that path of 'original' research has been trodden. OTOH, I 
will look it up in Platina and add it to my mishmash of illuminations and 
other things that I have been compiling regarding that subject. Thanks for 
another piece in the puzzle.

Ras