[Sca-cooks] Pineapples and their adoption in Europe

[Johnna Holloway]

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.
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> Stefan
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