SC - period pumpkin recipes?
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Mon Mar 6 07:00:04 PST 2000
> Butternut squash doesn't make any sense to me :-) It's New World.
>
> Anahita al-shazhiyya
>
Reasonable. Especially when one realizes that the modern butternut squash
is scientifically named after Duquesne, the 18th Century French botanist who
also cross-bred Chilean and Virginian strawberries. That makes me wonder if
the butternut isn't a post-period hybrid.
Bear
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