Cucumbers was [Sca-cooks] 2002 Cook's Symposium

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> According to some sources, cucumbers were unknown in Northern Europe until
> fairly late, but the pear shaped variety appear in Leonard Fuch's Primi de
> stirpivm... of 1545 as Cucumis sativus vulgaris among a series of cucurbits
> including at least one New World squash (identifiable by the ribbed stem).

Additional referent in Northern Europe:
"Archaeobotanical Evidence for Food Plants in the Poland of the Piasts
(10th-13th Centuries AD)", M. Polcyn. Biological Journal of Scotland, vol
46, no 4, p 533-537.
Cucumber seeds were found in 12th century archaelogical digs in Gniezno.

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
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