[Sca-cooks] Tomato was Pre-Columbian Foods

[Christine Seelye-King]

When Lady Temair did her research on the humoral theory, she found that the
'poisonous' appelation came from a botanist that was likening tomatos to
other extreme plants such as garlic, which is also considered poisonous if
not prepared correctly, as in harmful to the balance of the body's humors.
We see the word 'poisonous' and automatically think toxic, but the word was
used in a different connotation when relating to various plants and
behaviours that affected general health practices.
Christianna

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[mailto:sca-cooks-bounces at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Olwen the Odd
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 2:12 PM
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Subject: [Sca-cooks] Tomato was Pre-Columbian Foods


>--- 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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