[Sca-cooks] roman feast / Apicius

Johnna Holloway johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Sun Mar 23 11:29:52 PDT 2008


Mistress Huette did a summary a few years back of orange carrots 
appearing paintings.
Here is that post from 2006--  Johnnae

 Someone commented
about the orange carrots, so I looked at more paintings done by Pieter Aertsen and Joachim
Beuckelaer and found 14 painting that had carrots of various colors in them.  Some of the
white carrots might be turnips.  It is hard for me to tell.

Huette


These have white carrots or perhaps turnips...

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=16236

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21319

These are hard to decide if they are white or orange... 

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21617

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21611

These look more orange to me

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21613

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21614

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21618

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21619

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21327

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21318

These have purple, white and orange carrots

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21326

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21325

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21323

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21330





Dragon wrote:
> The carrot had spread to most of the rest of Continental Europe by 
> the 14th century and Britain by the 15th. The orange carrots we know 
> today are of Dutch origin and were selectively bread in the 17th and 
> 18th centuries for that color.
>
> Dragon
>   




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