[Sca-cooks] Winter Squash

[Olwen the Odd]

The Fruit Seller??  There are no squash in that painting.  
http://homepage.mac.com/festive_attyre/research/wkclass/wk4.html
You must be confusing it with some other painting.  In any case, you may or 
may not be correct in them being called Japanese pumpkins, but I do not 
recall ever seeing the ones of which I speak in an oriental market.  Also, 
they may or may not be related to the acorn squash, but the skin is much 
tougher.  These things I am talking about come in anywhere from around 3 to 
over 8 pounds each, which is one of the reasons that chuncks of them are 
sold as well as whole ones.
Olwen
>
>The green skinned pumpkins you are describing are often called Japanese
>pumpkins (because several new varieties have been produced in Japan).  They
>are New World squashes related to the acorn squash.  Flesh color tends to 
>be
>yellow to orange, but some varietals have a light green flesh.  They appear
>in some late period paintings, most notably Campi's "The Fruit Seller."
>
>The painting is used as an illustration in a fairly recent edition of
>Elizabeth David's work on Italian cooking and they are identified as 
>marrows
>in the caption of a detail illustration.  I suspect the term "marrow" is
>being generalized in this case as the shape is wrong for Cucurbita ovifera.
>
>If you can't find these big green squashes, I would suggest substituting
>acorn squash.
>
>Bear
>
> >The orangy pumpkin squash is a new world squash, but in many parts of the
> >world they have a similar type squash with a greenish skin that is also
> >called pumpkin.  Some types are a richer colour of orange inside and a 
>much
> >richer flavor.  You can usually find these types of squashes in a latino
> >store or international market, either whole or cut into pieces as they 
>can
> >get to be quite large.  There is one or two types with a slightly 
>different
> >skin colour that is more yellow inside and less flavorful than even our
> >orange pumpkin.  Probably Bear will give a rundown on all the name and
>place
> >facts.
> >Olwen
>
>
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