[Sca-cooks] Tomatoes in German herbal?

[johnna holloway]

A joint article on early tomato references can be found at:

http://home.earthlink.net/~mkcooks/index.htm

Entitled:  Sixteenth Century Italian and Spanish Tomato References by
Johnnae llyn Lewis, Helewyse de Birkestad, and, from the East Kingdom,
Brighid ni Chiarain.
This is a joint article by the three of us and shows that culinary
research and writing can be done cooperatively over the web. Perhaps it
will spur future collaborations by other members of the list.

Eventually the article should also be added to the Florilegium.

Johnnae llyn Lewis   Johnna Holloway

"Decker, Terry D." wrote:snipped--
>
> The first reference to tomatoes in European literature (of which I know) is
> by Pietro Andrea Matthiolo (AKA Petrus Matthiolus, Pierandre Mattioli,
> Mathioli, etc,).  I have seen dates for this of 1534 and 1544.  If 1534, it

> A while back, Johnna provided me a reference to manuscript on the natural
> history of the Indies in the Pierpont Library dating from between 1580 and
> 1595 which has illustrations of tomatoes.
>
> To my knowledge, no 16th Century cookbook has a recipe tomatoes and the
> recipes we do have are of the "it is said" variety.
>
> I'm in the process of trying to chase down further reference.>
> Bear