SC - Boxing Day Recipes? (Possibly Out of Period)

[Nanna Rognvaldardottir]

Thank you David.

>
>The quote is about people eating tomatoes in Italy fried in oil. Jan
>Longone, in an article, cites it as early evidence of the eating of
>tomatoes, and gives the date as 1544. I was conjecturing that, since
>Matteoli's book of 1544 is supposed to be the first written reference
>to tomatoes in Europe, it was likely that the quote was from it, but
>since I don't have the Longone article readily available I can't
>check if that was the source.
>--
>David Friedman

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