[Sca-cooks] Looking for references to orange carrots

Terry Decker t.d.decker at att.net
Tue Mar 2 05:44:58 PST 2010


>     I wouldn't have thought much of it even then, if it didn't happen to 
> match carrot variety extinction patterns so closely. It was in the late 
> 1700s that thousands of carrot types suddenly disappear from seed stocks 
> and planting records-- always replaced by carrots listed as either "new" 
> or "sweet."
>    Corollary evidence is provided by the exact same extinction pattern 
> following the supersweet  green pea mutation. (The greatest medieval pea, 
> the Grey Field, had the same protein level as steak. It is now almost 
> certainly extinct, shouldered out by the modern green sweet pea)
>     Come to think of it, a century earlier New World beans did the exact 
> same thing to Europe's huge range of broad beans, leaving only the Fava 
> out of thousands of local cultivars. However, I feel morally obliged to 
> point out that if the others tasted like Favas, the change was 
> comprehensible, even if not good in botanical terms.
>
> Yours in service to both the Societies of which I am a member-
> (Friend) Honour Horne-Jaruk, R.S.F.
> Alizaundre de Brebeuf, C.O.L. S.C.A.- AKA Una the wisewoman, or That Pict

References, please.  I'd like to see how you arrived at these curious 
conclusions.

Bear 




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