SC - Poisonous Tomatoes?y

Wed Nov 29 06:38:45 PST 2000

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I look forward to seeing your article.  Where do you plan to publish
it?  In the meantime, the next time I'm doing a feast, I may try to find
the Chinese Long Beans to use.  Thanks!

Kiri

LrdRas at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 11/28/00 9:28:13 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> ekoogler at chesapeake.net writes:
>
>
>
>> And was it used in European cuisine?  I've never seen any reference
>> to it,
>> but then I'm no expert and certainly have not studied every single
>> book
>> that's out there.  Anyone know of such a thing?
>
> There is a realistic illumination dating from a 14th century
> manuscript that
> clearly shows the yard long bean illustrated. Unfortunately the
> accompanying
> text has nothing to do with herbs at all. A photograph of a stem,
> leaf, bean
> segment of a yard long bean plant from my garden laid beside the
> illumination
> exactly matches it in EVERY detail. Similar photos of other bean
> species
> don't come close. I am preparing an article on this as well as other
> plants
> that I think can be identified clearly in manuscript illuminations and
> it
> should be out in some form or the other by next fall. The main
> hindrance is
> growing and photographing the plants. Some years some things succeed
> in the
> garden and other years they don't. :-)
>
> Ras
> The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.- Solomon Ibn
> Gabirol

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I look forward to seeing your article.  Where do you plan to publish
it?  In the meantime, the next time I'm doing a feast, I may try to
find the Chinese Long Beans to use.  Thanks!
Kiri
LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>In a message
dated 11/28/00 9:28:13 AM Eastern Standard Time,
 ekoogler at chesapeake.net
writes:
  
  
<blockquote TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">And
was it used in European cuisine?  I've never seen any reference to
it,
 but then I'm no expert and
certainly have not studied every single book
 that's out there. 
Anyone know of such a thing?</blockquote>

There is a realistic illumination
dating from a 14th century manuscript that
 clearly shows the yard long
bean illustrated. Unfortunately the accompanying
 text has nothing to do with
herbs at all. A photograph of a stem, leaf, bean
 segment of a yard long bean
plant from my garden laid beside the illumination
 exactly matches it in EVERY
detail. Similar photos of other bean species
 don't come close. I am preparing
an article on this as well as other plants
 that I think can be identified
clearly in manuscript illuminations and it
 should be out in some form
or the other by next fall. The main hindrance is
 growing and photographing
the plants. Some years some things succeed in the
 garden and other years they
don't. :-)
Ras
 The test of good manners
is to be patient with bad ones.- Solomon Ibn Gabirol</blockquote>
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