[Sca-cooks] unsweet melons?

[Terry Decker]

Melons are found in four genera:  Benincasa, Citrullus, Cucumis, and 
Momordica.  Sweet melons are specifically Cucumis melo.  All other melons 
are not "sweet melons" by definition.  There are melons that are not very 
edible and others that are used only in cooking.

For further info, you might look at Medieval Emergence of Sweet Melons, 
Cucumis melo (Cucurbitaceae) 
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/110/1/23.short .

Bear


<<< Otherwise, "The time and place of emergence of sweetthought to have 
reached Europe from the east near the end of the 15th century.” >>>

What other kinds of melons are there, than “sweet melons”?

I’m probably biased or just unknowledaged, because about the only melon I’ve 
like so far is watermelon. But are there sour melons? Or bad tasting melons? 
Or salty melons or some such?

Stefan