[Sca-cooks] gazpacho

[Ana Valdés]

The most interesting research I read about the gazpacho was carried out 
in Apicius, the list about Rome food. It was some scholar who had made a 
research about in how many countries the gazpacho or its varieties was 
eaten. The scholar made an interesting discovery, the list of countries 
was the same list of countries under Rome rule or where the legions were 
around.
Selon his thesis the gazpacho was at the beginning the cold food the 
legionaries ate when they marched. Since their main strenght was their 
mobility they seldom stopped to eat and rest and ate in the move a colc 
mixture of garlic, water and cucumber. (The tomato was unknown then.)
Interesting, but if the supposition is correct, what about England? Is 
gazpacho or a variation of it eaten in Britain?
Ana

Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> Also sprach Huette von Ahrens:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> There is an interesting article on Gazpacho and
>> its history in today's Los Angeles Times food
>> section.
>>
>> http://www.latimes.com/la-fo-gazpa13aug13182420,1,5403375.story
>>
>> Huette
>
>
> Thanks, Huette!
>
> Unfortunately, the site apparently requires registration, and while 
> I'm not opposed to that in principle, I do need to limit the amount of 
> sites I register with, if only to limit the passwords I have to keep 
> track of, and the amount of junk mail I get...
>
> So, if you'd like to post the article, maybe more people could see it. 
> And complain about bandwidth ;-).
>
> Adamantius
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