[Sca-cooks] Re: artichoke quote was roast turkey

[Johnna Holloway]

The source of this section for all those wondering about the
Harvard Common Press source is
Clifford Wright's book Mediterranean Vegetables, 2001.

Johnnae

Chris Stanifer wrote:

>Here is a reference from the Harvard Common Press, which seems to support the notion that Apicius'
>"Artichoke" was very likely a cardoon:
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>"Professor Andrew Watson, following the botanist Georges Gibault, claimed that the artichoke was
>developed from the cardoon; that only the cardoon was known in the Greco-Roman world, designated
>by names such as kaktos, cynara, carduus, scolymus, and spondylium; and that there is no reference
>in classical literature to a plant of this family with edible flesh on the bracts. snipped
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>>From this information, I assume that the Artichoke, though cultivated in Italy during SCA period,
>was not a 'mainstream' item.
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>William de Gradfort
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