[Sca-cooks] TI Article

Stanza693 at wmconnect.com Stanza693 at wmconnect.com
Fri Jul 20 09:18:36 PDT 2007


In a message dated 7/20/2007 9:45:53 AM Mountain Daylight Time, 
sca-cooks-request at lists.ansteorra.org writes:


> There are very few English language primary sources on growing plants 
> before the 1500s. Most gardening treatises before that point were 
> written in Latin.
> 
> -- 
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
> "I thought you might need rescuing . . . We have a bunch of professors 
> wandering around who need students." -- Dan Guernsey
> 
> 
> ------------------------------

The Spanish can get close, though!

Not English language and not pre-1500, but I picked up "Ancient Agriculture" 
last year or early this year.  It is a compilation and translation of Gabriel 
Alonso do Herrera's "Obra Agricultura" from 1513.

There's a mention of Spanish Peas on page 70.  Would those be the same as the 
type of peas discussed in this article?  I can't tell from the description in 
the book.

A sus ordenes,
Constanza Marina de Huelva
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