History of Strawberry

Fragaria comes from "fragans", odorous, allusion to the perfumed flesh of the fruit. Madam Tallien, a great figure of french Revolution, who was nicknamed Our Lady of Thermidor thanks to her beauty, used to take baths full of strawberries to keep the full radiance of her skin. Fontenelle, centenarian writer and gourmet of the 18th century, considered his long life was due to the strawberries he used to eat.