[Sca-cooks] Squash was Re:Helewyse's latest feast

Barbara Benson voxeight at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 20:40:51 PDT 2009


> Does this make squash the only New World food for which we have not merely
> evidence that someone, somewhere in Europe, cooked and ate it before 1600,
> but evidence that it was a reasonably familiar ingredient with a good deal
> of information on what was done with it? I don't think tomatoes or potatoes
> satisfy that--what about Turkey? Capsicums?
> --
> David/Cariadoc
> www.daviddfriedman.com

Based on the goodly number of Turkey recipes in Rumpolt I would say
that it fits your definition.


--
Serena da Riva



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