[Sca-cooks] Heaston Blumentahl

Terry Decker t.d.decker at att.net
Sat Feb 23 19:12:36 PST 2013


I did write a piece a number of years ago entitled "The Tudor Banana" about 
a banana that had been found in a Tudor midden.  It later turned out that 
the fruit was actually a plantain.  Still, given what was commonly known, it 
was an odd find as the first bananas recorded as being sold in London were 
from a single banana stalk brought as a botanical specimen from the West 
Indies in 1633.  I conjectured that it had been imported from the Canary 
Islands.  Given the custom record of a shipment of potatoes, oranges and 
green lemonsfrom Las Palmas, Gran Canaria,  to Antwerp in 1567, I think my 
conjecture is fairly sound.  I'm certain liquid nitrogen is not exactly 
Tudor.

Bear


> Thank you! The guy don't seem very caring about to keep things Tudor :) he 
> made a purée of bananas to eat with peas in liquid nitrogen :)
> Or maybe I am wrong and the Tudors already had bananas?
> Ana




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