SC - Poisonous Tomatoes?y

[david friedman]

At 2:13 PM +0000 11/28/00, Olwen the Odd wrote:
>>  > According to Longone (I think) the quote about eating tomatoes fried
>>>  in oil is also from 1544, which suggests that it is probably from the
>>>  same source.
>
>Gee, sorry, I deleted lots of this thread so I don't know where the 
>above quote came from or what is the validity or history of this is. 
>Can someone please bring me up to speed on it?

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.
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