[Sca-cooks] Cucumbers, was: Ethnic market epiphanies
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Fri Mar 8 09:23:27 PST 2013
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
On Mar 8, 2013, at 9:01 AM, Sayyeda al-Kaslaania wrote:
> I, too, am curious what people know about the different kinds of cucumbers mentioned in Islamic cookbooks.
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> Sayyeda al-Kaslaania
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>>> Has anyone here figured out what cucumbers currently available correspond to varieties in the Islamic sources, especially al-Warraq?
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