[Sca-cooks] Tomato was Pre-Columbian Foods

[Olwen the Odd]

>--- Christine Seelye-King
><kingstaste at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > Christianna
> > who has made a man-shaped Alegria with a heart
> > shape cut out of the chest,
> > I'm thinking about filling it with something
> > red, raspberry sauce comes to
> > mind, but I want something new world, not chili
> > paste, cranberries are
> > really the wrong continent... hmm...
>
>You seem to be overlooking the obvious red New
>World fruit/vegetable, the ever-poisonous Tomato!
>  A little tomato paste would do the trick.
>
>Huette

Ya know, I've thought about a theory for a while and I have not seen it 
brought up here on the list so here goes.
It seems that there is strong proof from pictures and stuff I've read here 
that tomatoes were in at least parts of the contenent during our period.  I 
figure that, going on the knowledge that the greens of many plants were used 
(sometimes only the greens and the root vegetable would be discarded) that 
if folks back then actually went this route with tomatoes then that would 
account for why they didn't eat them and considered them harmful or deadly.
Well, that is my one lucid moment.  I'll turn the light back off and be in 
the den.
Olwen

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