[Sca-cooks] Re: Old World vs. New World Fruits

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
Mon Sep 27 19:07:10 PDT 2004


New world foods...
> > bison, wild pig, turkey, moscovy duck, rabbit, fish, shrimp, shellfish,

Uh. Rabbits (domestic rabbits, the kind that live in burrows) are native 
to Europe, not the new world. 
So are Hares. Cottontails are native to the new world, being a species 
halfway between a rabbit and hare.

England did not have rabbits, only hares, until they were imported.

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