[Sca-cooks] Yellow carrots?

[Olwen the Odd]

I always have to wonder where you find the time to do all this reading and 
research if your on the list all the time....perhaps you do not sleep??
8`)
Olwen

>The white ones are the European carrot although it probably originated in
>Central Asia.  The reds and purples came out of Central Asia probably about
>the time of the Islamic expansion.  The first reference to yellow carrots 
>is
>10th or 11th Century from Asia Minor.  The yellow carrot is related to the
>red, but with only minimal amounts of the chemical that causes the red
>pigmentation.  At least one Andalusian writer considered the yellow carrots
>inferior to the red.
>
>The colored carrots entered Christian Europe from Spain around the 13th
>Century.  They are believed to have been introduced into England in the 
>15th
>Century by Dutch refugees.
>
>The orange carrots we eat today are a Dutch hybrid developed in the 16th
>Century.  All of our modern orange carrots come from about five strains of
>Dutch carrots first cataloged in the 17th Century.
>
>Bear
>
>
>
> >I just found a bunch of yellow carrots in the market. Anyone know how
> >they are related to the medieval "white" ones?
> >
> >UlfR
> >
>
>
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