[Sca-cooks] Re: Bananas/plantains

[iasmin at comcast.net]

Many many digests ago (years?) I wrote up a little interlude on bananas because someone asked about banana bread and apologized for using an off-topic fruit. If you'd like, I can send that to you privately to forward on to your friend.

Iasmin

> ISTR at least one discussion in the past about the period-ness of 
> bananas and/or plantains....isn't there some evidence of a peel or 
> something? in England? 
> Would they have possibly been period-appropriate for 16th c. Venice? 
> I'm asking for someone on another list.... 
> --maire