[Sca-cooks] Roysonys of courance

[Sue Clemenger]

The "champagne grapes" we occasionally see in markets here are green, not
black or purple or even red.....
--Maire (Artemisia)

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From: "Terry Decker" <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net>
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Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Roysonys of courance


> > Ah.  But would there be any info on what the 14th-16th century
Englishman
> > would have called such fruit?
> >
> > niccolo
>
> "Grapes" or possibly "black grapes" given the darkness of them.
Identifying
> specialty grapes by locale seems to be out of period (Pliny and some other
> writers excepted), although other products are identified with location
> which provided connotations about item, cost, quality, etc.  Barbary
sugar,
> Turkish corn, and, yes, raisins of Corinth are examples.
>
> A 14th to 16th Century Englishman might have identified Zante grapes as
> Corinthian grapes, but there is evidence for that usage at present.