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

[Sayyeda al-Kaslaania]

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?