On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:15:30 -0500, "jmcquown"
> wrote:

>SCUBApix wrote:
>> I have a magazine-like cookbook of mediteranean recipes ('taste of
>> Greece' by Joanna Farrow and Jacqueline Clarke) and it uses names for
>> some ingredients that I just don't know what the American counterpart
>> is. In one recipe is calls for 1 large aubergine, which I know is egg
>> plant, and 2 large courgettes. What are courgettes? Help!
>
>Zucchini. A kind of squash with green skin; usually a summer squash in the
>U.S.


They can be yellow and orange as well. I personally choose always the
yellow ones when I buy courgettes at my local organic farmers' market
here in London.