[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #2146 Tomatoes

[Daniel Myers]

On Monday, July 15, 2002, at 11:33 AM, Elizabeth A Heckert wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 12:00:05 -0500 sca-cooks-request at ansteorra.org
> writes:
>      Has anyone discussed   the produce in the painting *Summer*
> (painted
> 1563) by Giuseppe Arcimbaldo (1527-1593).  There is an image of it at:
>
> http://www.abcgallery.com/A/arcimboldo/arcimboldo2.html
>
>      The image on my computer screen is harder to see than the 15 year
> old postcard I have of the image.  Above the cherries and below the
> raspberries/blackberries is a fruit that looks like a plum tomato to me,
> albeit a golden one.  I have not seen modern yellow plum tomatoes, and I
> don't  know the shapes of old varieties--I am interested in Northern
> Europe, and am content to think of the tomato as out of period for
> what I
> do.

I'd have to get a better copy of the picture to be sure.  If any of the
leaves around the fruit in question belong to that fruit then I don't
think they're tomatoes - the leaves are the wrong shape.

Also, considering the relative size of the surrounding berries, either
the berries are frighteningly large or the mystery fruit is very small.
Perhaps they're gooseberries?


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