[Sca-cooks] broccoli and cauliflower

[Daniel Myers]

Quoted from Rosine - 5/24/02, 3:59 PM -0400:
>> 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?

Can you point me to some of the paintings?  I'd love to have things proven
(to me) one way or the other.

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