[Sca-cooks] Re: More musings on nightshade and tomatoes

[Christiane]

Kirk wrote:

Don't forget they are Nightshades and many assumed anything from that family
except for the roots would be deadly.
There are even stories of people eating "Love Apples" and dying from the
1600s, or so I was told by a Professor when I was in College.
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Could be that's another reason why the English wouldn't eat them. But Italians would eat anything even if it had a chance of killing you; see my previous posts about fava beans. 

Gianotta