[Sca-cooks] Winter Squash

[Stefan li Rous]

  Amanda Blackwolf asked:
> I'm reading throughRedon et al. The Medieval Kitchen. In several
> recipes,
> recipe 25 in particular, they use pumpkin as the squash of choice,
> where the
> translation (and presumably the original, but I can't read French or
> Italian) states squash. I had thought that pumpkin was a New World 
> food.
What we usually think of as a "pumpkin" these days is New World. It is 
another example of the transfer of the name of an Old World food name 
to a new item when it was "discovered".
> What squashes were available in France and Italy, especially in the
> winter?
I'm not sure but you might want to look in this file in the 
FOOD-VEGETABLES section of the Florilegium for info on both of your 
questions:
gourds-msg        (94K)  5/29/02    Gourds, pumpkins, squash. Recipes.

Stefan
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