[Sca-cooks] Plantains and John Gerarde

[emilio szabo]

>> the John Gerard "The Herbal", p. 1514 to 1517, Chap. 136, "Of Adams Apple
>> tree or the West Indian Plantaine."
>> So it is old world in the late 1500s.
>
> Don't you mean, "so it is "New World" in the 1500's?"  BTW, the "Plantaine" 
> referred to is a banana.


There is no page 1514 to 1517 in the Gerarde Herball of 1597. 

The index in that edition points to pages 337 to 347 for all sorts of plantains but not the kind of plantain we are speaking of.

The quote above seems to refer to the 1636 edition. See:

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33580  (page 1514 ...)



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