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Hello guys, welcome to the history of asparagus Presented to you by Big Short And the source today is asparaguslover.com Anyway, let's begin The history of asparagus The history of asparagus goes back a long way The abbreviation of the word asparagus gives us some idea of its early history Section 2 Asparagus, grass, esparrago and spargel The word asparagus is rooted to ancient Greek Where the word asparaphargos can be identified in various literature with two different meanings The first found in Homer's Iliad is used to mean throat or gullet Whilst the second is referred to as the edible shoots of stone spurge or asparagus Acutifolus The asparagos without the h is also Greek and it means of obscure origin We have yet We have seen reference to the fact that at one point the Greek word Referred to as the young edible shoots of any plant that shoot up from the earth But can't identify this fact The Greek developed into the word asparagus in classical Latin But was then shortened to asparagus in medieval Latin According to the world of wide words it first appeared in English around 1000 AD And by the 16th century it was commonly referred to in English English was spelt wrong here As sparak or sparach At this point in common with other English language developments There was a reversion to the classical Latin roots encouraged by academics and herbalists And so asparagus came back into use Not content with going full circle in common with the use of the a It was dropped and the words asparagus, sparagrass and sparrow grass Became widely used with grass and another shortening still used today Asparagus is believed to be seen in an Egyptian frieze dating back to 3000 BC And it is said to have been known in Syria and Spain The ancient Greeks ate asparagus for its tender shoots But it was the Romans who first started to cultivate asparagus more than 2000 years ago Julius Caesar is alleged to have eaten asparagus with melted butter Just as we do These early adopters enjoyed eating asparagus in season But they also dried it for use in the winter The Romans are said to have used frozen asparagus in the Alps For a feast of epicurus Transporting it there by fast chariots and runners Whilst the emperor Augustus is said to have built a fleet of ships To transport asparagus around the Roman Empire The oldest surviving book or recipes is said to be Apicus' Deracoconara And it contains a recipe for cooking asparagus As well as growing asparagus for its culinary delights The Greeks and Romans considered it to have medicinal qualities The phrase I might have said that wrong Means to eat something faster than the time taken to cook asparagus And is attributed to the emperor Augustus After the demise of the Roman Empire Little is heard regarding the history of asparagus for a while Evidence suggests that asparagus was being grown in French monasteries in 1459 But is unheard of in England and Germany until the mid 1500s In the 16th century asparagus starts to appear in the history books again It has reached France and England with Louis XIV of France Allegedly having special greenhouses built to grow his asparagus As quoted above Samuel Pepys, the artist or the famous diarist Records buying 100 asparagus in Fenchurch Street, London in 1661 1667, my bad, I can't read Crossing the Atlantic It is thought that colonists brought asparagus to North America in the 1700s Planting it initially in New England By the 1850s it had found its way to North California West Brookfield in Massachusetts it believes that Derek Lietois I don't know how to pronounce that May have been the first to introduce asparagus to New England Ruth Leon, a local resident and writer has done some research And tells a story here That has nothing to do with what I'm saying In her research and passion for the asparagus History Asparagus is history Ruth has also learnt about asparagus etiquette And has collected some stylish and interesting asparagus serving ware Section 6 I'm not going to butcher this word Evesham, Worcestershire UK Evesham in Worcestershire Is one of the main asparagus growing regions in the UK And the village of Badsey is home to the Badsey Growers Society and has some interesting collections of information on the history of asparagus According to their pages and to Terry Sparrow, author of Digging for a Living Asparagus was grown in the area as As of As early as 1768 He tells that He tells of W. Pitt, author Of General view of the agriculture of the county of Worcester 1813 recording seeing several flats of asparagus in the field This is thought to refer to the large streth of level ground Then in 1830 The Royal Horticultural Society Awarded a medal To Anthony New For asparagus exhibited at the Vale of Evesham Society show The same site hosts an interview with Lorna Haworth Who talks about Who talks at length about her childhood As the daughter of Ineos Baylis A market gardener in the Vale of Evesham She talks about some traditional methods of tying and packing as well As the ordures of keeping up with the crop Evesham remains a centre of Of Evesham remains a centre of asparagus growing in the UK And hosts the British Asparagus Festival Section 7 German Asparagus Growing Spargel as the Germans call it Took hold in Germany around Stuttgart in the 16th century Around the same time it was taking off in the UK Initially it was grown exclusively for the royal court Earning its nickname I'm not going to try Royal Vegetable Schwedzingen One of the two primary spargel growing regions in Germany Is where Karl Theodor Prince Elector started green Asparagus growing competition amongst the princes in the 17th century Whilst Schrobenhausen Another city steeped in the asparagus history houses The European Asparagus Museum Thank you for listening to the history of asparagus presented by me
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