Fw: Fw: [Sca-cooks] Discussion of usage of capsicum peppers in Asia inourperiod.

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> I confess to a typo in la jiao, but it is in the Rutaceae
> (the citrus family), not the Ranunculaceae.  As to time
> frames and prevalence, that's an SCA concern!  There was
> capsicum in East Asia by 1600, at least in the Portuguese and
> Spanish settlements and around, but we still don't know how
> fast it spread.  Incidentally the Bahasa Malaysia/Indonesia
> term "lada" for capsicum is a transfer word--originally it
> meant "long pepper"--this happened in other langagues too--
> thus making use of early texts hopeless--not that any early
> Bahasa texts mention this stuff anyway!  Good luck with it
> all!
> best''Gene A

His certs, btw, are at these addies:

http://www.anthropology.ucr.edu/people/anderson.html
http://www.facultydirectory.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/pub/public_individual.pl?faculty=561

Saint Phlip,
CoD

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....



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