[Sca-cooks] Eggplant query

[Anne Murphy]

Quick search of the Morgan gives me this...  (The first link is the
record, the second is the actual picture.) 14th Century Italian...

http://tinyurl.com/a8nj5k6

http://tinyurl.com/b3pzxcm

It shows the plant with the eggplants on it, so it's not much help for
size... but shape and color, yes.

AEllin

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:33 PM, David Friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com> wrote:
> Local grocery stores normally carry at least two varieties of eggplant. What
> I think of as the standard eggplant is large with dark blue skin. There are
> also thinner, lighter varieties with paler skins, variously labeled as
> Japanese, Chinese or Filipino eggplants.
>
> Does anyone know what varieties existed in period? Eggplants show up in at
> least Italian and Middle Eastern recipes, and presumably should show up in
> paintings, but I don't remember seeing any.
>
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