[Sca-cooks] The Musical Fruit(s)

[ranvaig at columbus.rr.com]

> > 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.
>>
>
>I think you are being bitten by a little translation problem.  I think the
>recipe you are referring to is titled "De' fasoli" in the original text.
>Fasoli translates to "kidney bean" in English, but the use of the word in
>the Latin form, "phaseolus," dates to Antiquity.  For pre-1600 Italy,
>black-eyed peas are fasoli, although there is some disagreement as to the
>precise beans referred to in Antiquity.
>

What he said.... and so much better than I did.
Ranvaig