[Buddha-l] France invented strawberries <for grins>

[R B Basham]

Y'all,


Read the whole as there is a whole non-occidental world out there <g> as
I was reminded. [Now if I can just get seed by early Spring 2011.] 

Imagine having a choice in strawberries comparable to what USAns have
for identical toothpastes, jeans, hams, thread, etc. Not all sufferings
are equal!


Richard Basham

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http://www.connexionfrance.com/how-france-invented-the-modern-strawberry-news-article.html

France invented the strawberry
Connexion edition: May 2010

One of the pleasures of being an émigré is that you can bring the best
of British with you. What could be more English than strawberries and
cream? It is like leather on willow. Well, not quite.

Although the tiny woodland strawberries were known since Roman times,
the first garden strawberries originated in France. In 1714, while on a
spying mission for the Sun King, Louis XIV, in the Spanish ports of
South America, naval military engineer Amédeé François Frézier (his
surname may sound like the French for a strawberry plant, fraisier, but
is a corruption of Fraser, from his Scottish antecedents) heard of the
large white strawberries of Chile. They were big but not fragrant nor
flavoursome.

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