[Sca-cooks] Re: artichoke quote

[Chris Stanifer]

--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> If, as The Cambridge World History of food states, that the Ancient Romans
> ate artichokes and brought them to the British Isles, your thesis doesn't
> hold water. 


That reference may be a mistake.  The jury is still out on this one.  The 'artichoke' of ancient
Rome may well have been a cardoon...

William de Grandfort







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