[Sca-cooks] Spanish Pepper?

Laura C. Minnick lcm at jeffnet.org
Tue Sep 13 22:19:24 PDT 2011


On 9/13/2011 6:36 PM, Saint Phlip wrote:
> However-
>
> I still feel that the black-eyed peas were OOP. Can someone go back
> over that? I think we could use turkey more easily than black-eyed
> peas.

Phlip, black-eyed peas appear in the list of plants in at least one of 
Charlemagne's documents- the Capitulare de Villis is on the web in 
several places. There's even a nifty chart at 
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitulare_de_villis_vel_curtis_imperii and 
/Vigna unguiculata, /or cowpeas, which we know as black-eyed peas, are 
listed in 11a.

Just because we strongly associate them with the American South doesn't 
mean they came from there. And trust me, if they were growing in 
Frankish fields, they probably ate them.

Liutgard

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