[Sca-cooks] Pineapples and their adoption in Europe

Johnna Holloway johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Fri Sep 22 04:24:00 PDT 2006


Pineapples are included in the Drake manuscript.
Histoire Naturelle des Indies. The Drake Manuscript
in The Pierpont Morgan Library. 1996.
They are listed as "pinnes."

Johnnae


Stefan li Rous wrote:
> When I saw this, my first thought was "Uh oh. Have I been telling  
> folks at demos when I run the New World/Old World food game the wrong  
> thing about pineapple? I've been mentioning that it was one of the  
> fastest New World foods to be adopted in Europe. And yet this article  
> is saying "earliest references to pineapples in 1674". Which is well  
> out of our period.
>
> So I went back and looked in my pineapples-msg file. And found:
>  > "In 1595 Sir Walter Raleigh wrote on pinas, the princesse
>  > of fruits, that grow under the Sun, especially those of
>  > Guiana.
>
> So, at least one Englishman knew of Pineapples prior to 1674.
>
>
> Stefan
>
>   




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