[Sca-cooks] Looking for references to orange carrots
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Mon Mar 1 09:29:06 PST 2010
Was it valid when it was written? Or is it an apocryphal story that makes
for interesting reading but bad history.
I've been through a number of research papers and references and have yet to
find any reference to sweet or orange carrots originating as a mutation in
England. The general consensus is that all modern orange carrots (those
extremely sweet carrots we get at the supermarket) derive from five to seven
hybrid strains developed in the Netherlands between the 15th and 18th
Centuries. There is disagreement as to what extent the hybridization was
between cultivated and wild carrots.
There is a possible connection between the Netherlands and England in that
Flemish refugees settled in England and introduced carrot cultivation to the
country.
Bear
> But is an article from 30 years ago in this case still valid, given
> all the new research?
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> Johnnae
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> On Feb 28, 2010, at 8:33 PM, Honour Horne-Jaruk wrote:
>> Unfortunately, the original died in my friend's house fire.
>> IIRC, it was a summer issue in the mid-seventies. Most larger libraries
>> have National Geographic collections on disk nowadays; a search of that
>> era's disk might prove fruitful.
>>>
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