[Sca-cooks] Cucumbers, was: Ethnic market epiphanies
Sayyeda al-Kaslaania
samia at idlelion.net
Fri Mar 8 06:01:10 PST 2013
I, too, am curious what people know about the different kinds of
cucumbers mentioned in Islamic cookbooks.
Sayyeda al-Kaslaania
>> Both the middle eastern and the indian groceries tend to have both
>> multiple colors of both lentils and chickpeas. Ditto for reasonably
>> priced fresh mint (and of course the middle eastern grocery often
>> carries a variety of cucumbers, not just gherkins, english seedless,
>> and whatever the ones every grocery store has are)
> Has anyone here figured out what cucumbers currently available
> correspond to varieties in the Islamic sources, especially al-Warraq?
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