[Sca-cooks] Fwd: Looking for references to orange carrots

[Stefan li Rous]

 From John at the Carrot Museum.

Stefan

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Carrot Museum <curator at carrotmuseum.co.uk>
> Date: March 2, 2010 2:36:51 AM CST
> To: Stefan li Rous <stefanlirous at austin.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Looking for references to orange carrots
> Reply-To: curator at carrotmuseum.co.uk
>
> Great, thanks very much.
>
> I assume that work is talking about plants on Spain?
>
> John
>
> On 2 March 2010 03:17, Stefan li Rous <stefanlirous at austin.rr.com>  
> wrote:
> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:12:14 -0500
> From: Robin Carroll-Mann <rcarrollmann at gmail.com>
>
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Looking for references to orange carrots
>
> Just throwing in another reference.  The 1551 edition of the "Libro de
> Agricultura" by Gabriel Alonso de Herrera has this to say about
> carrots.
>
> Delas zanahorias y chirivias.  Estas dos maneras de rayzes pone el
> Platina en un mismo capi. aun que ellas son differentes en sus
> colores: que las chirivias son blancas como los nabos salvo que son
> mas delgadas y largas.  Las zanahorias son de la hechura de los nabos
> ni mas ni menos: salvo ser unas de color de naranjas: otras muy
> coloradas tanto que tornan en prietas.
>
> Of carrots and parsnips.  Platina puts these two kinds of roots in the
> same chapter even though they are different in their colors, because  
> parsnips are white like turnips, except that they are thinner and  
> longer.  Carrots
> have the appearance of turnips, neither more nor less, except that
> some are the color of oranges; others are so red that they turn dark.
>
> [translation mine]
>
> http://alfama.sim.ucm.es/dioscorides/consulta_libro.asp?ref=X533701960
>
> Brighid ni Chiarain