[Sca-cooks] The Musical Fruit(s)

ranvaig at columbus.rr.com ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
Sat Apr 12 15:48:29 PDT 2008


>Saluti!
>
>In Cuoco Napoletano there is a recipe for "Kidney Beans" that I am
>looking at, and of course this comes around to the whole "which beans
>are old world and which are new world" mental gymnastics.

Am I right in thinking this is a translation of an Italian cookbook?  I think that rather than relying on when English used "kidney bean" you need to look at the source, for the word that was translated this way.  Its entirely possible that the source used a word that *later* was used for new world beans, but at this time meant old world beans.

Ranvaig



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