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

[Johnna Holloway]

The New World beans also certainly were used and described.
Maize in certain areas was adopted.
Turkey of course appears in numerous places from household records to
recipes. We even have pictures.
Sweet Potatoes also.

Johnnae


On Sep 24, 2009, at 4:37 PM, David Friedman wrote:
> 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?