[Sca-cooks] broccoli and cauliflower

[johnna holloway]

Funny thing about those paintings...
I think that it's a case of far more varieties
being available than people think.... and another
place to look at is William Woys Weaver's Heirloom
Vegetable Gardening.
Johnna Holloway   Johnnae llyn Lewis


> > 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.
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> Rosine wrote in response----
> 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