[Sca-cooks] Re Pasta Experiment Update

[Huette von Ahrens]

I am sure that "some idiot" did.  But it was probably way after our cut off dates or in the New
World and was never written about.  

But your example of raisins isn't really valid as grapes were indigenous to Europe and they
had thousands of years to make the discovery.  In fact, there are many recipes using raisins
during the MA and Renaissance.  Tomatoes were just being introduced in the last century of
our eras and only being written about in the last half of the last century that we cover.
Sundried tomatoes have only become popular and widely available in the past twenty years or
so.  There may have been people who sundried tomatoes before this, but they must have been few
and far between, until recently.

Huette

--- Vladimir Armbruster <vladimir_armbruster at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I will be honest that I don't actually have documentation on Sundried
> tomatoes.  (That was a poor attempt at fascietiousness)
> 
> But I think it a fair assumption that some idiot left a tomato out to dry in
> the hot summer sun, and then thought to himself 'I wonder what that tastes
> like'?
> 
> Much as my assumption as to the invention of raisins. :)
> 
> But on the other hand. :)  I may just try to find documentation for them.
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