[Sca-cooks] broccoli and cauliflower

Rosine rosine at sybercom.net
Fri May 24 12:59:16 PDT 2002


> So while I would say that flower clusters from many varieties of B.
> oleracea were cooked and eaten in period, I would not include broccoli or
> cauliflower.

I'm confused. All those 16th century Flemish kitchen/veggie girl paintings
with cauliflower's recognizably in the painting - these are plants that look
like our modern ones, but are of a different genus or something?

Rosine




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