[Sca-cooks] watermelons

[Johnna Holloway]

I was speaking about the Pliny reference. The CWHF is only one of his references. I'll try to unbury my set tomorrow and look at the actual entry in print.

Johnna

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> On Jul 25, 2015, at 10:08 PM, JIMCHEVAL at aol.com wrote:
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> It turns out that Dalby's reference is the very article I cited in the  
> Cambridge World History of Food. Which says not only says nothing about melon  
> referring to watermelon, but explicitly traces the latter's history as  
> later.
> 
> Jim  Chevallier
> _www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 
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