SC - nightshades

[Stephen Bloch]

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.

					mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib
                                                 Stephen Bloch
                                           sbloch at panther.adelphi.edu
					 http://www.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/
                                        Math/CS Dept, Adelphi University
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