[Sca-cooks] rice in Spain
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Wed Sep 9 19:48:55 PDT 2009
Oops. Okay, I mis-spoke. While rice didn't arrive until later in some
parts of Europe, it did arrive in Spain early enough for the
Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook. One message from the rice-msg file I
mentioned:
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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:35:45 -0500
From: "Decker, Terry D." <TerryD at Health.State.OK.US>
Subject: RE: SC - Rice in period?
IIRC, the Arabs introduced rice from India to Spain, Cyprus and
Sicily. The
initial conquests in India were in 712. Spain was invaded in 711.
Cyprus
was taken around 683. And Sicily was taken in the 9th Century. So
rice was
likely introduced to Spain and Cyprus early in the 8th Century and
Sicily
some time in the 9th Century.
There was an abortive attempt to grow rice in Southern France late in
period.
Rice was a secondary grain because it was not used to make bread and
most of
Europe had to import it.
Bear
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Stefan
Okay, my poor memory is one reason I created the Florilegium. Just
have to remember to look there first...
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