[Sca-cooks] YKYITSCAW...

[johnna holloway]

He may not have eaten them, but  descriptions of the
tomato were being recorded during his lifetime.

Check out the article that Brigid, Helewyse  and I
did last summer. Stefan has a copy in the Florilegium.

Johnnae llyn Lewis     Johnna Holloway

"Pixel, Goddess and Queen" wrote:

> There's a local iteration of a chain pizza place that claims to make
> authentic Neapolitan pizza. They've distributed cards with a coupon for a
> free lunch pizza to the surrounding businesses, to get us all to come in
> for lunch, and on the front of this card is a repro of a drawing which
> might be Michelangelo, with the phrase "Even Michelangelo took a lunch
> break".
>
> And all I could think of was "But, tomatoes aren't old world! Michelangelo
> wouldn't have eaten tomatoes!"
>
> Sigh.  Margaret
>