[Sca-cooks] The Purple Carrot Returns and then Some

[margaret]

Carrots come in a number of colors.  White originates in Europe, dark red 
originates in Central Asia.  The purple is an Asiatic carrot probably 
hybridized in China.  The modern purple carrot was created by a project in 
Texas to breed back to the original form.

Yellow carrots show up in Asia Minor around the 10th Century.  They and red 
carrots show up in Andalusia around the 12th Century.  The modern orange 
carrot is believed to be hybridized from the red and the yellow in the 16th 
Century.  Scientific literature in the 17th Century identifies five orange 
strains which are the strains our orange carrots derive from.

Bear

>
> Weren't the 'original' carrots dark red?  I seem to recall reading that 
> somewhere on this list.
> Or not.
>
> William de Grandfort