[Sca-cooks] Re:food myths

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In a message dated 9/18/2002 1:27:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
solstice at moscow.com writes:


> For me, its the Turkey Leg thing. Turkeys are new world.
>

Yes, but probably also the fastest adopted of the New World foods.  They were
quite popular in Europe before 1600.
So turkeys are wrong for anything before the discovery of the new world, but
there are existing period recipes (probably not for smoked turkey legs,
though!).

Brangwayna Morgan