Vegetables of the Known World

Known	Unknown
Asparagus Aubergine Broad Beans Beets (roots and leaves) Borage Broccoli Brussel Sprouts Cabbage Carrots Cucumber (Mediterranean) Endive Fennel Haricot Beans Kale Kohlrabi Leeks Lentils Lettuce Okra Onion Parsnip Peas (dried) Radish Shallots Silverbeet Sorrel Spinach Tamarind Turnips Winter melon/Ash Gourd	Corn Green Beans Potato  (Considered animal fodder until war-time food shortages of 1795) Wax Beans Watercress Zucchini

Those that need special consideration

• Bean Sprouts Used only in Asian cooking during SCA period 
• Cauliflower Known only to the Mediterranean
• Celery/Smallage Used only as a medicinal ingredient during SCA period
• Pepper Came to spain with Columbus and were used in spanish cooking during the 1500's
• Pumpkin Also called Pominions were brought back from the new world and grown in Europe after 1500
• Squash Same as the pumpkin
• Sweet/Garden Peas The green peas we eat today were bred somewhere around 1550, while sugar snap and snow peas were much later and out of SCA period.
• Sweet Potato A new world item that was on the tables by 1526 but wasn't overly favoured
• Tomatoes Were always yellow popular in Spain and Italy after 1500 but never eaten in England

Sources

Dickson, Margaret (1971) Travels in Time: Eating and Drinking Banks and Co, Edinburgh, ISBN 0 71587 0896 1 (for children only)
Dickie, John (2007) Delizia! The epic history of Italians and their food Hodder & Stoughton, London ISBN 978 0 340 89641 9
Norman, Jill (1990) The Complete Book of Spices RD Press, Sydney, ISBN 0 86438
Rogers, Jo (1990) What Food Is That? Weldon Books, Sydney, ISBN 1 86302 091 8
Soyer, Alexis, (1977) The Pantropheon or A history of food and its preparation in ancient times Paddington Press, London, ISBN 0 448 22976 5
Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne (trans Anthea Bell), History of Food, ISBN 0-631-19497-5
Usherwood, Stephen (1972) Food, Drink and History David & Charles, Newton Abbot, ISBN 0 7153 5657
Watson, A. M. (1983) Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World: The diffusion of crops and farming techniques 700-1100 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.