SC - Subing????

[Decker, Terry D.]

Going from memory, there were a number of things traded between Spain and
Italy in the late 16th Century which the wily Venetians traded to the Turks,
among them maize and capsicum peppers.   In turn, the Turks introduced them
to Eastern and Central Europe.  Tomatoes are probably part of this trade to
the Middle East.  If so, they would have been introduced very late in the
SCA period and would probably not have been used in period.

Of the top of my head, I can't remember any specific sources, but a turn
through Braudel's trilogy on the history of Civilization and Capitalism
should connect you with some bibliographic references.  Come to think of it,
his The Mediterrenean and the Mediterrenean World in the Age of Phillip II
and Out of Italy 1450-1650 might be useful in this case.

Bear

> ----------
> From: 	Shari Burnham[SMTP:pndarvis at execpc.com]
> 
> > 2.  Do you have evidence for the use of tomatoes in Middle Eastern
> cooking
> > before 1600?
> >
> 
> I will ask Kateryn on this one, too, since she is the one who did the
> middle
> eastern recipe research.  I remember her saying something about tomatoes
> and
> certain fruits that were consumed in the Islamic areas of NE Africa and ME
> before these fruits,etc were traded northward.  Would you happen to have
> any
> additional source info/documentation that I could cross reference?  Now I
> really
> want to do more digging!
> 
> > David/Cariadoc
> > http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
> 
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