Odd and Interesting foods (was Re: SC - food bashing)

[Lee-Gwen Booth]

In a message dated 9/19/00 6:17:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
lilinah at earthlink.net writes:


<< We had a good discussion of this back when I first learned of the 
cooking competition.

 >>


Also remember that while bushel basket gourds do resemble the fruit of the 
American pumpkin, the basis for calling the New world fruit a pumpkin was not 
necessarily based on the appearance of the fruit. It most probably was based 
on the appearance of the plant which is similar to several plants of the 
gourd family. The 2 I have seen pictured in manuscripts are clearly NOT 
bushel basket gourds but are Italian edible gourds and birdhouse gourds 
respectively. while bushel basket gourds are a good candidate, I think it 
would be a shame to restrict the definition to that particular plant alone 
based on similar fruit appearance.

Ras
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