[Sca-cooks] OOP Question -Sassafras

[Craig Jones]

Quoting Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>:

> Nancy Kiel commented:
> > Sasafras might not be OOP---when they settled Jamestown in 1607,
> > sassafras was one of the things they were looking for, which implies
> > there was already a market for it.  I believe it was used medicinally.
> 
> I'd be interested in seeing more details of this. If I'm correct, 
> sassafras is a New World plant, and except for possibly Florida, I 
> don't think it grows where the Spanish and Portuguese were. So where 
> would it have come from to get to Europe to develop a market before the 
> English New World colonies? Bear, do you have more info on this, such 
> as the native range of sassafras?

I vaguely remember that sassafras trees were discovered in Hispanola, but 
frankly I have absolutely no idea where I read that...

Drakey.