[Sca-cooks] OT - A little history

[Daniel Myers]

Please be careful with your attributions there.  You excerpted a 
portion of my email where I quoted someone who was quoting someone 
else, but the "doc>" at the start of the line makes it appear that 
those were my words.

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 11:53 PM, Ron Carnegie wrote:

> doc>
> doc> >> What does appear clear, though, is that until the early 19th 
> Century,
> doc> >> when
> doc> >> Jefferson "proved" their safety and made a big deal of feeding 
> them
> doc> >> to his
> doc> >> ambassadorial guests, the Tomato did not appear as a common 
> European
> doc> >> foodstuff, even in Italy.
> doc> >