SC - You think it's not period??

[Elaine Koogler]

That's great!  thanks!!!!  I seem to remember from an Archeology course I took
'way back when I was working on my M.A. being told that there was evidence, from
pottery shards that were found, that the Japanese also managed to reach South
America.  I'm not really sure about this as I also recall that the Japanese
weren't really great nautical types, preferring to sail around the coast rather
than out in the open ocean.  However, this was supposed to be fairly early and
seems to have been fishermen.  Has anyone else heard of anything of this sort?

Kiri

RButler96 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 5/9/00 11:58:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> morgancain at earthlink.net writes:
>
> > The Laurel and I have different expectations.  Even in this day and age, I
> do
> > not expect every feast I attend to be rabidly period, as long as they are
> not
> > blatently 20th Century.  Not everybody has the interest, skill set,
> > facilities, or support to prepare a perfectly period feast.  OTOH, I don't
> > like to see blatantly non-pre-1600 foods such as tomatoes, corn, white
> > potatoes, peanuts (yep, I've been faced with them), etc., unless the cook
> > offers documentation for the usage.
>
>     Alas, I must bring a point up here.
>
>     Recently, there has been massive evidence of Chinese trade with South
> America dating to between 6th and 12th centuries.  One of the results of this
> is the find of ancient tomato seeds in the stomachs of some well-preserved
> Chinese mummified corpes.  Alas, they also managed to trade some of these
> with their Turkish Ambassador.
>
>     The Turkish Ambassador to the Chinese wrote in his journal that he was
> served a dish containing something that surely must be sinful since it was
> the color of blood, and yet he ate it to abstain from disgracing his host.
> Seeking favor, he brought a sample back to the Sultan.
>
>     Alas, the substance was a tomato.  Evidence has been found in South
> America (in the form of Chinese anchors), China (seeds and such), and the
> remains of several Sultanate palaces that were ruins far before a modern cook
> could have contaminated them.   I beleive the evidence is overwhelming....
> ((btw, I do offer documentation, as soon as my moving is completed and I have
> a chance to unpack it.))
>
>     Khadijah
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