[Sca-cooks] Carrots in Dutch paintings

[Terry Decker]

There are records from 17th Century Flanders that show several different 
strains of orange carrot from which all of our modern orange carrots appear 
to descend.  The paintings show orange carrots in the 16th Century, so we 
know they were in Flanders before the written record.  Flemish immigrants 
introduced red and yellow carrots into England in the late 14th Century, but 
there is no record of orange carrots.  This suggests that the hybridization 
of the orange carrot took place in Flanders during the 15th or early 16th 
Century and use was probably geographically limited until the 17th Century.

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> What???  I have no project.  Someone commented about orange colored 
> carrots.  I was just
> looking at paintings and decided to share ...
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> Huette