[Sca-cooks] chili pepper in 1620 spanish painting?

[Johnna Holloway]

The painting is owned by the National Gallery  in London.
If you go to their website you can download the picture for viewing from
them. In theory this  has a zoom function which makes it easier to look 
at the details.
It takes forever to download, so be patient.
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG1375

Using the zoom function----

Yes, it's a pepper and yes it's garlic.....

Hope this helps---

Johnnae llyn Lewis

Terry Decker wrote:

>Right shape, right color, but not a good reproduction.  It would be nice if
>we could see the original or a Tauschen reproduction.
>
>Chili peppers appear in Leonard Fuchs herbal of 1543, so it is very likely
>they were being used in cooking before 1600.
>
>Bear
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The white items could be either garlic or some white mushroom. They are 
strangely drawn

enough as to be unclear to my eyes, anyway.

Huette

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>>Does the thing in front of the bowl of fish look like a dried chili
>>pepper to anyone else?
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>>- Doc
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