Hi @antonella Lovely post and more importantly, delicious food.

The name “eggplant” has a curious history, as does the plant itself. Eggplants were cultivated as early as 600 BC in China, and were much darker in color. Fashionable women of the time would use a dye extracted from the skin to stain their teeth black, some sort of terrible style trend. People in the U.K. now call them “aubergines” instead of eggplants, a word taken from the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit, but in India they have been called “brinjal.” Somewhere down the road, in Renaissance Italy, the term mala insana or “crazy apple” was coined because it was certain that the eater would go mad. Alternatively, they were also called “apples of love” for their supposed aphrodisiac qualities.

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