10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CALAVANCE»
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calavance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Mediterranean Vegetables: A Cook's ABC of Vegetables and ...
It is not known how the word calavance entered the English language.
Athenaeus relates that the Spartans would serve green calavances, beans, and
dried figs at kopides, feasts given for strangers. Today this vegetable is eaten by
Bedouin ...
The earliest use of the word " calavance " that the writer has been able to find is
by William Hughes, 1672 (The American Physician, or a Treatise of the Roots,
Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Fruit, Herbs, etc., 17, 18), where he writes concerning ...
United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, 1907
... year saving the earliest ripened pods only for planting. Burbudi. — See Barbati.
Bush Conch. — This name appears in catalogue for 1910 of Crenshaw Bros.
Seed Co., Tampa, Fla., apparently a synonym for Conch. Calavance or
Calavence.
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Greek Papyri in the Collection of New York University
I gave Isidoros likewise eight talents as the price of twelve artabs of grain and
twelve artabs of calavance beans for the account of Ammonianus; these Isidoros
has by him. And likewise I gave Isidoros ten additional talents as the price of ...
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A Companion to Latin Studies
Calavance (phaselus and phaseolus) is mentioned once by Virgil, ' uilemque
phaselum'. Its usual identification with the Haricot is now abandoned, as that is
ascertained to be of American origin. Recent research leaves no doubt that it was
the ...
Sir John Edwin Sandys, 1910
6
A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India
CALAVANCE. Calavance.—Oolonel Yule tells us that this name was once in
common use in English, and may, perhaps, to this day be used at sea for a kind
of bean, perhaps the Indian Vigna Catiang, or a species of Phaseolus. The word
...
Philotimus and Praxagoras make no mention of these foods, apart from just
beans and peas, so that there is nothing in these authors to connect with the
name of calavance, on which this discussion is centred. Call those pulses which
the ...
8
Galen: On the Properties of Foodstuffs
On dolichos [? calavance] The name dolichos was included in the writings of
Diocles, together with the names of other seeds that nourish us, and also in the
On Regimen of Hippocrates, which work I have already discussed. I think that
they ...
9
A Companion to Latin Studies
Calavance (phase/us and phaseolus) is mentioned once by Virgil, 'uilemque
phaselum'. Its usual identification with the Haricot is now abandoned, as that is
ascertained to be of American origin. Recent research leaves no doubt that it was
the ...
10
Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece
Chickpeas, eréhinthos, served both as a staple and as a dessert, for which
purpose they were roasted or, if young and tender, eaten fresh.215 Of calavance,
phiiselos, do'li/ehos, both the ripe seeds and whole immature pods could be
eaten.
