[Sca-cooks] Turkeys ARE Period!
David Friedman
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com
Sat Dec 16 09:35:31 PST 2006
>There was quite a bit of confusion as to where things came from. Fuchs
>(1541) refers to chili peppers as Indische and Calcuttisha Pfeffer and maize
>as Turkishe Korn (if I got the spellings correct). That beats out Gerard by
>half a century.
If I remember correctly, Finan, John J., Maize in the Great Herbals,
suggests that maize was referred to as "Indian corn" not out of a
confusion between the New World and Asia but because Pliny described
something that sounded similar called "Indian corn" and maize was by
some misidentified with that.
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David/Cariadoc
www.daviddfriedman.com
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