[Sca-cooks] watermelons

[Terry Decker]

Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) has been grown in Egypt since the 2nd 
millenium BCE and were grown around the Mediterranean by 1000 BCE.  You can 
find references in Pliny, Hippocrates, Apicius and Anthimus.  Definitiely 
period.

Bear

Watermelons are apparently period:
Watermelons-art (6K) 8/12/07 "Regarding Watermelons" by THL Johnnae llyn 
Lewis.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-FRUITS/Watermelons-art.html

Stefan