[Sca-cooks] Question about watermelon...

[Kathleen A Roberts]

On Fri, 20 May 2005 17:05:08 -0400
  Johnna Holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu> wrote:
> Watermelons— Come originally from Sub-Saharan Africa and 
>were eaten by the Egyptians, but not apparently by the 
>Romans and Greeks. They begin to appear in still life 
>paintings in Northern Europe after circa 1450.

cool.  they are cheap here now and MIGHT find their way 
into seige baskets. ;)
cailte
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