[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 48, Issue 47

[Claire Clarke]

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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:58:08 -0700
From: lilinah at earthlink.net
To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Seljuk/Rumi/Sufi Cuisine
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 (sarcasm on) She also includes such 13th century 
Anatolian favorites as butternut squash and 
zucchini, both New World in origin. (sarcasm off) 
And yet she is careful to exclude other New World 
plants, such as tomatoes, potatoes, bell peppers, 
and chilis from her recipes.

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Is she suggesting them as substitutes for the period 'gourd'? I've seen this
done before (and done it myself, upon occasion). 

Angharad