[Sca-cooks] Carrots in period

[Johnna Holloway]

Perhaps searching the Florilegium and this list's archives will give  
you all the information you want.
Stefan offers this file:
carrots-msg (61K) 6/12/10 Medieval and period carrots. Colors.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-VEGETABLES/carrots-msg.html

  We've discussed this topic several times. Here's a post from 2006--

Mistress Huette did a summary a few years back of orange carrots
appearing paintings. She wrote at that time-
"Someone commented
about the orange carrots, so I looked at more paintings done by Pieter  
Aertsen and Joachim
Beuckelaer and found 14 painting that had carrots of various colors in  
them.  Some of the
white carrots might be turnips.  It is hard for me to tell.

Huette"

Unfortunately the links are now broken but if you go to http://www.artrenewal.org 
  you can do a search on
these artists and see several works that feature carrots.
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Also take a look at these sources mentioned at:
http://www.medievalcookery.com/paintings.html

Take a look at the artworks selected for The Netherlands and Flanders,  
and you'll see carrots.

Johnnae

On Jan 19, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Michaela Vecht wrote:

> Hello Everyone!
> A friend and i were having a discussion regarding modern orange  
> carrots and whether or not they were period. Can anyone please  
> enlighten me?
> Thank you!
> Tahira