[Sca-cooks] Apple or quince???

[Johnna Holloway]

There are books and sources that allege that it was the quince
in the Garden of Eden.
See
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/vegetable_gardening/52285

Also I've come across accounts where the forbidden fruit was the 
pomegranate.

Johnnae


Suey wrote:
> Over the centuries there has been confusion between the apple and 
> quince as it has been called the "golden apple." Although it can be 
> found still growing wild, during the Middle Ages, Greeks and Italians 
> cultivated it and it spread throughout the Mediterranean and Europe. 
> Perhaps Paris gave Aphrodite quince and not an apple. What about Eve? 
> Was there a quince tree in the Garden of Eden?
> Suey
> _________