[Sca-cooks] Bored? Wanna read about peas?

[Susan Fox]

Peas on earth, good will toward all human beans.

Selene Colfox

On 12/18/2013 8:41 AM, JIMCHEVAL at aol.com wrote:
> And beans.
>
> Big hits in the Middle Ages:
>
> http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/12/of-peas-beans-monks-and-kings.html
>
> By  the way, though I didn't look at this here, the fasiolus - whatever it
> actually  was - does not seem to have popped up so far in any digs (which of
> course would  go a long way towards settling exactly what the term referred
> to). Charlemagne  wanted them planted on his estates, but that and
> Anthimus' look at them in the  sixth century are about it for France.
>   
> Go figure.
>   
> Jim  Chevallier
>   (http://www.chezjim.com/) www.chezjim.com
>
> Les Leftovers: sort of a food history  blog
> leslefts.blogspot.com
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