[Sca-cooks] watermelons

[Johnna Holloway]

Check out Dalby's entry on watermelons here. From his Food in the Ancient World from A-Z. There's a reference in the footnote. Someplace in the files I have more info, but due to the move that computer isn't set up at the moment. 

https://books.google.com/books?id=RXpm47Wr49EC&pg=PA347&dq=pliny+watermelon&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAmoVChMItemppc33xgIVw3U-Ch3e0QZQ#v=onepage&q=pliny%20watermelon&f=false

Johnnae

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> On Jul 25, 2015, at 7:09 PM, JIMCHEVAL at aol.com wrote:
> 
> ?
> Anthimus mentions cucumbers (cucumeres) and melons (melones) in  general. 
> But it's a stretch to say he mentions watermelons (Citrullus lanatus).  I 
> don't find any  references at all to melons in Pliny.
> Can you point to any of these references?
> Jim  Chevallier
> _www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 
> 
> In a message dated 7/25/2015 3:39:46 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
> t.d.decker at att.net writes:
> 
> You can  
> find references in Pliny, Hippocrates, Apicius and  Anthimus.
> 
>