Kohl (surname)

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| name = Kohl

| image = Tacuinum Sanitatis-cabbage harvest.jpg

| caption = Cabbage harvest illustration,
Tacuinum Sanitatis (15th century).

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| pronunciation = {{IPA|de|koːl}}

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| meaning = Cabbage

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| region = Germanosphere sprachraum

| language = German language

| languageorigin = Middle High German: kōl, kœl, kœle
Old High German: kōlo
Latin: caulis ("stalk", "stem")

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| variant forms = Upper German: Koehl/Köhl

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{{Wiktionary|Kohl}}

Kohl is a German surname derived from the word kohl, meaning cabbage. It tends to originate as an occupational name for a merchant or cultivator of the crops.Duden Familiennamen, Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2005, ISBN 3-411-70852-2, S. 389

Cabbage was most likely domesticated somewhere in Europe in Ancient history before 1000 BC. Cabbage in the cuisine has been documented since Antiquity.A brief historical sketch is in Toussaint-Samat, pp. 622ff. It was described as a table luxury in the Roman Empire.The Natural History of Pompeii. Cambridge University Press. 2002. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-521-80054-9 By the Middle Ages, cabbage had become a prominent part of European cuisine, as indicated by manuscript illuminations.Ingram, Christine (2000). The Cook's Guide to Vegetables. Hermes House. pp. 64–66. ISBN 978-1-84038-842-8. New variates were introduced from the Renaissance on, mostly by Germanic-speaking peoples.