[Sca-cooks] Winter Squash

[Terry Decker]

That webpage is only a detail from the full painting.  Over half has been
left off.  The squash are to the right of the girl at chest level.  You also
need a very good reproduction to make out the stem details.  I wasn't able
to tell a great deal until I saw a large scale reproduction in a book from
Tauchen.

There is also a large pumpkin-like veggie between the girl and the squash
down at foot level, but I can't determine whether it is a basket gourd or a
pumpkin.

Bear

>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