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

[Mark S. Harris]

Selene of Caid asked:
> Tiptoe-ing back on-topic:  when, precisely, was the Zucchini as we know it
> discovered and used in European cookery?

Perhaps during the famines of the early 14th century? :-)


Actually according to a few messages in my vegetables-msg file,

zucchini isn't period to Europe. However, Waverly Root in "Food"
says zucchini is an Italian summer squash.


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