Byline: LAUREN CHAPIN Kansas City Star
Melons, affectionately known as Cucumis melo by botanists, are a rather complex fruit (or vegetable, depending on which source is consulted).
They have a ragtag history and a propensity to hybridize willy-nilly. The French, in fact, go to great lengths to keep apart melons and their cousins, cucumbers, to prevent ``incestuous intercourse,'' according to The Oxford Companion to Food.
We'll narrow this discussion to three categories of dessert melons: cantaloupe, netted (or musk and nutmeg) and winter melons.
The cantaloupe category includes the most fragrant specimens and is named for Cantalupo, Italy, …
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