SC - nightshades

[david friedman]

At 1:06 PM -0500 2/14/98, Stephen Bloch wrote:
>Bogdan wrote:
>> While I am not sure who brought them, I do know that they were not eaten
>> for a while due to trhe pretty flowers.  Why, being in the nightshade
>> family gave the tomato a late start too.  Nightshade was known, and the
>> whole family was shunned.  Your random botanical fact for the day
>
>Yes, tomatoes and potatoes are both Solanaceae, but so are eggplants,
>which were widely used at least in Iberian cooking in the Middle Ages.

Does anyone have any period evidence for the "tomatoes and potatoes were
not eaten because they were in the nightshade family" story? I suspect it
is an urban legend, but don't actually know.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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