[Sca-cooks] Gads, Zooks! was Drive-by Dessertings

[Terry Decker]

Marrow is also used to describe the small, pumpkin-shaped squashes (dark
green skin with orange meat, similar to a large acorn squash) that appears
in Campi's Fruit Seller (about 1590).

Bear

>They are part of the New World squashes, so it can't be that
>early and it may be rather late before they achieved popularity.
>Davidson suggests the 1920's.
>Castelvetro includes them in his manuscript as translated by
>Gillian Riley. That would place them as 17th century with them being
>eaten as marrows in Italy in the late 16th.
>
>Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway
>
>Susan Fox-Davis wrote:
>>> Tiptoe-ing back on-topic:  when, precisely, was the Zucchini as we know
it
>> discovered and used in European cookery?
>> > Selene, Caid