[Sca-cooks] More on Beets and Beet Roots (P.S.)

[david friedman]

I checked a second version of Tacuinum Sanitatus, the one published 
as "The Medieval Health Handbook" and containing pictures from a 
variety of different copies. It has a picture for beets which, like 
the one in "The Four Seasons of the House of Cerruti," is pretty 
clearly showing the greens being harvested.

I should add that the book the picture is in is believed to be 14th 
c. Italian, based on a 13th c. (I think) translation of an Arabic 
original.
-- 
David/Cariadoc
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/