[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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