[Sca-cooks] OT - A little history

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> >   In England,Gervase Markham's THE ENGLISH HUSWIFE gives instructions for
> raising
> >tomatoes in his section on kitchen gardens. (At least according to
> >foodways historian Karen Hess).
> >From the Best edition, the reference is to "apples of love" in paragraph 5
> of section II.  No other references or recipes.

Perhaps in the _English Husbandman_? I can't take the time to go dig for
it now, but remind me after Pennsic and I will look...

-- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
"History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns
to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the
king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of
human folly." -- Jean-Henri Fabre