[Sca-cooks] watermelons

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

See if you can find the Pliny reference: 19, 67-8  20, 11-12. These do  not 
align with anything relevant in the text I know.

In Book XIX, 23, Pliny has a passage which has been read to mean a  melon:
 
"It is only of late, too, that a cucumber of entirely new shape has been  
produced in Campania, it having just the form of a quince.61 It was quite by  
accident, I am told, that the first one acquired this shape in growing, and 
it  was from, the seed of this that all the others have been reproduced. 
The name  given to this variety is "melopepo." These last do not grow hanging, 
but assume  their round shape as they lie on the ground. A thing that is 
very remarkable in  them, in addition to their shape, colour, and smell, is 
the fact that, when  ripe, although they do not hang from the stem, they 
separate from it at the  stalk."
 
But there is no reason to believe this specifically refers to a watermelon; 
 it is not even sure that it refers to a melon.
 
_https://books.google.com/books?id=IUoMAAAAIAAJ&dq=inauthor%3Apliny%20melope
po&pg=PA158#v=onepage&q&f=false_ 
(https://books.google.com/books?id=IUoMAAAAIAAJ&dq=inauthor:pliny%20melopepo&pg=PA158#v=onepage&q&f=false) 

Jim  Chevallier
www.chezjim.com

FRENCH BREAD HISTORY: Late medieval  bread
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2015/06/french-bread-history-late-medieval-brea
d.html










In  a message dated 7/25/2015 7:42:58 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
johnnae at mac.com  writes:
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.