SC - You think it's not period??
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Mon Jun 5 14:45:29 PDT 2000
Suleyman, in an old message I missed, wrote:
>
> > The documentation she mentioned includes several period recipes from
> > Ottoman Turkey, all calling for tomatoes or tomato sauce. (You
>remember the
> > Ottomans, don't you? At one point they ruled half of Europe, in
>case no one
> > remembers.)
What was the original source? I haven't found any period Turkish
cookbooks, and would be happy to know of them if they exist.
"Half of Europe" is a bit of an exaggeration. The Balkans, the
majority of Hungary, and more or less everything south and east of
there. It might come to a quarter the land area of Europe, although I
think even that would be a little high.
I haven't read the whole thread, but I believe Jan Longone cites a
16th c. reference to people eating tomatoes in Italy.
David/Cariadoc
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