[Sca-cooks] squash recipes

[david friedman]

Bear writes:

>While I know of no recipes for squash, squash appears in Vincenzo Campi's
>The Fruit Seller (1580) suggesting that squash was commonly for sale around
>Milan in the late 16th Century.


How do you know it is squash? The picture of an edible gourd in _The
Four Seasons of the House of Cerruti_, which is from before Columbus,
looks rather like a modern squash. Different varieties of C. Pepo
vary a lot, and I presume the same would be true for the old world
gourds.
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David/Cariadoc
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