A botanist once demonstrated to me the origin of the English name, in a garden - some varieties (perhaps all?) start as yellowish-white egg shaped fruits, which become purple when growing in size and maturing.
Mordecai
----- Original Message ----- From: Hardy Breier <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net> Date: Monday, September 5, 2016 15:22 Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Tocz To: 'Frieda Tabak' <friedatabak_at_icloud.com> Cc: 'Margaret Gross' <margaretgross_at_gmail.com>, Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu > Vinete is Rumanian for the color purple of the plant. > Always used in plural. ? > Aubergine in German from French. > In the west not in the cookbook for humans. > Very tasty though
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