[Sca-cooks] Cucumbers, was: Ethnic market epiphanies

[Johnna Holloway]

Also see 
"The Cucurbitaceae and Solanaceae illustrated in medieval manuscripts known as the Tacuinum Sanitatis" by Paris, Daunay, and Janick.
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/103/8/1187.full?sid=53240e2d-01d2-4131-b06c-b71a2da79f6d

"Background and Aims Beginning in the last two decades of the 14th century, richly illuminated versions of the Tacuinum Sanitatis, the Latin translation of an 11th-century Arabic manuscript known as Taqwim al-Sihha bi al-Ashab al-Sitta, were produced in northern Italy. These illustrated manuscripts provide a window on late medieval life in that region by containing some 200 full-page illustrations, many of which vividly depict the harvest of vegetables, fruits, flowers, grains, aromatics and medicinal plants. Our objective was to search for and identify the images of taxa of Cucurbitaceae and Solanaceae."
 
Johnnae

On Mar 8, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Johnna Holloway wrote:

> Start out with this article and then check the footnotes:
> 
> "Occidental diffusion of cucumber (Cucumis sativus) 500–1300 CE: two routes to Europe" by Paris, Daunay, and Janick.
> 
> http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/109/1/117.full
> 
> There's a full description if you scroll down for varieties grown in the east.
> 
> Johnnae