SC - old world/new world foods

[James Gilly / Alasdair mac Iain]

At 21:26 13-1-99 EST, Lady Giuglia Madelena Sarducci wrote:
>Tomatoes didn't make it to Italy until
>the very end of the 16th century (The Italian Pantry by Anna del Conte,
1990),
>so I'm not sure you would want to use them, although I guess you could.

Anybody have a copy of *Seven Centuries of English Cooking* (think that's
the correct title....) handy?  I'm pretty sure that's the book I own
(packed away) in which a 16th-century Englishman is quoted as saying that
the people of Spain use tomatoes in a sauce "as we do mustard."


Alasdair mac Iain



Laird Alasdair mac Iain of Elderslie
Dun an Leomhain Bhig
Canton of Dragon's Aerie [southeastern CT]
Barony Beyond the Mountain  [northern & southeastern CT]
East Kingdom
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Argent, a chevron cotised azure surmounted by a sword and in chief two
mullets sable
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