[Sca-cooks] Spanish Pepper?

Daniel Myers dmyers at medievalcookery.com
Wed Sep 14 11:10:54 PDT 2011



> -------- Original Message --------
> From: wheezul at canby.com
> Date: Wed, September 14, 2011 1:39 pm
> 
> Note this "Indian or Calcutta" pepper image as well:
> http://imgbase-scd-ulp.u-strasbg.fr/displayimage.php?album=28&pos=380
> contrast to the "ordinary" pepper here:
> http://imgbase-scd-ulp.u-strasbg.fr/displayimage.php?album=28&pos=382

That is certainly a capsicum, but this text is dated 1590, which is
certainly a long time after ancient Rome (which was the claimed
documentation for Spanish pepper being capsicums).

Very nice source, by the way.  I'm going to spend a *lot* of time
digging through it.

- Doc





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