[Sca-cooks] Dayboard-like Fighter Food

[Daniel Phelps]

Was written:

> I don't know about banana pudding, but, for the Mediterranean region
> during the Renaissance, according to Clifford Wright, in his "A
> Mediterranean Feast", bananas are period, having been introduced at
> least to southern Italy and Spain by the Arabs.
>
Indeed there is that famous "embalmed" Elizabethean banana recently found
and discussed last year.  That being said I seem to recall reading that
there was an alternative period tradition in Islam that the forbidden fruit
of Eden was not an apple but a banana.

Daniel