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

[Johnna Holloway]

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.
> 
> Sayyeda al-Kaslaania
> 
>>> Has anyone here figured out what cucumbers currently available correspond to varieties in the Islamic sources, especially al-Warraq?