[Sca-cooks] Carrots and Rice

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Oops. That's the whole plan.
 
Here's the garden:
_http://www.stgallplan.org/StGallDB/plan_components/zoomify/13?file=%2Fbasel
3%2Fklosterplan_recto_basel3%2F&x=-0.228908684104621&y=0.32644023596
5028&zoom=16.9299759320648_ 
(http://www.stgallplan.org/StGallDB/plan_components/zoomify/13?file=/basel3/klosterplan_recto_basel3/&x=-0.228908684
104621&y=0.326440235965028&zoom=16.9299759320648) 
 
The herbs in it were:
_http://books.google.com/books?id=wb_UMcH5C7EC&lpg=PA177&ots=m6NchxpZGT&dq=%
22St.%20Gall%22%20rose%2C%20rue%20sage&pg=PA176#v=onepage&q&f=false_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=wb_UMcH5C7EC&lpg=PA177&ots=m6NchxpZGT&dq="St.%20G
all"%20rose,%20rue%20sage&pg=PA176#v=onepage&q&f=false)  
 
In a similar  Carolingian vein is Strabo's poem on his garden:
 
_http://books.google.com/books?id=_FZUMjr-kUUC&lpg=PA8&dq=inauthor%3Astrabo%
20garden&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q&f=false_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=_FZUMjr-kUUC&lpg=PA8&dq=inauthor:strabo%20garden&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q&f=false) 
 
 
Note that the only root vegetable he mentions is the radish. The  Romans 
wrote specifically of parsnips and carrots, though the distinction was  not 
always clear. But medieval references are often to 'roots', which could of 
course  include carrots. Or not.
 
Aldebrandino of Siena (13th) mentions parsnips but not carrots (though I'd  
have to look further to see if the distinction was important at the time.)  
Vilanova, in the same period, does not seem to mention either.
 
 
Jim  Chevallier

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_https://www.createspace.com/4871441_ 
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"Demarquet  does not know how to lie or slander; I believe him loyal and 
sincere."
Simon  Bolivar
 
 
In a message dated 9/7/2014 8:12:19 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
jimcheval at aol.com writes:

Another  famous source is the Plan of St. Gall, though the layout of the 
crops may have  been completely  theoretical:

http://www.stgallplan.org/en/index_plan.html