[Sca-cooks] Re: Tomato evidence

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach Diamond Randall:
>(except in the area of Turkey).   However, I do think that the chin and
>lips of Summer are tomatoes, a large yellow-orangish pear-shaped one
>and smaller oval cherry tomatoes. The cap of the larger one is very
>like a tomato stem attachment and not like a fruit stem.
>Is this consistant with the early types we know in Europe at that time?
>Does anyone have any suggestions what these might
alternately be?

Hmmm. I would have said that the larger one (if I'm looking at the
right one) was some kind of pear, based on the end, which has that
fairly distinctive star-shaped apple-pistil (or at least, non-stem)
end. The smaller ones almost look like kumquats to my untrained eye.
I have no idea if kumquats would have any business being there...
another (unlikely) possibility is that the smaller fruits are fresh
dates, which are shaped like that, and more or less golden in color.
It's hard to tell, though, again, whether dates would have been in
Italy at the time in their fresh form.

But then, sometimes a cigar is just a tomato...

Adamantius

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