[Sca-cooks] A silly question

[Stefan li Rous]

Iago asked:
> I was chatting with a friend of mine and he was inquiring when Oregano made
> it out of the Mediterranean region and started to be used elsewhere. He also
> inquired if oregano was ever used in any type of celtic cooking, i.e. Irish,
> Welsh,Scots,Cornish, or Breton. I did tell him that to the best of my
> knowledge it never made it into Celtic cooking. I did however wish to tap the
> collective minds here and try to find out.

I'm not sure why you thought this was a silly question.

Waverly Root does have a bit to say about oregano in "Food". In part
about how it is often confused with majoram.

He(?) also says:
Oregano is hardier than majoram and consequently enjoys a wider
distribution.  Majoram sticks close to the Mediterranean basin, where
it was born. Oregano penetrates even into quite cool areas of the
temperate zone; it grows wild in England, for instance. When it first
appeared there in 1597, John Gerard called it in his _Herball_,
"Bastard Majerome of Candy," that is, of Ceylon.

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