Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Watermelons ...then and now!

I hope I can do more of these.  A lot of vegetables have been inbred beyond recognition ...some for better, some for worse.  Examples like this are fascinating at any rate!

Stanchi's watermelon, which was painted sometime between 1645 and 1672, offers a glimpse of a time before breeding changed the fruit forever.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I remember corporate food concerns working on square watermelons to make them easier to ship. But it is fascinating to see how much real food has changed over time.

Alan