[Sca-cooks] Tomatoes was sca digest

[johnna holloway]

We know that they grew them. Gerald talks about them
and they appear in that Drake manuscript that I hunted
up for Bear. The question is one of recipes. They were
apparently being grown as an odd ornamental plant with
(yes) gold fruit prior to ever being used in a dish or
two.
Andrew Smith in The Tomato in America says on page 17
that:

"Tomatoes grew easily in the Mediterranean climate of
Spain and Italy. They were used for culinary purposes
in Seville at least by 1608, probably in a salad along
with Cucumbers."

The Grewe article would be the source.

Johnna Holloway   Johnnae llyn Lewis


>
> On Monday, July 15, 2002, at 11:33 AM, Elizabeth A Heckert wrote:> >
 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 snipped...> >
> >      There 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.
>Daniel Myers wrote:
> 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?