[Sca-cooks] new world foods; old world names

[Stefan li Rous]

Elisabetta asked:
> ok, you get the idea. So here's the question:
> Peppers and watermelon and pumpkin/gourds. Can anyone recommend some
> sources
> that I can pass on to him and use myself? And whose idea was it to use
> established food names for newly discovered foods?

Well, you might try these various Florilegium files:
In the FOOD-FRUITS section:
Period-Fruit-art (60K) 1/13/02   "Fruit of Period Times" by Baron
                                      Akim Yaroslavich.

In the FOOD-VEGETABLES section:
peppers-msg      (50K) 3/ 1/05   The introduction of peppers to Europe.
gourds-msg       (99K) 1/22/05   Gourds, pumpkins, squash. Recipes.

For a pair of other vegetables you mentioned:
artichokes-msg   (40K) 1/19/05   Period artichokes. Recipes. Cardoons.
asparagus-msg    (29K) 1/22/05   Period asparagus and asparagus recipes.
Crdoon-Articke-art (33K) 12/20/04   "The cardoon and artichoke in 16th 
century
                                      Italian cooking" by Mistress 
Helewyse de
                                      Birkestad.

Stefan
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