[Sca-cooks] Medieval and/or Middle Eastern Recipies containingTomatoes

[Johnna Holloway]

I always meant to write to Fitzgibbon and ask her what her source was
for the difference in the entries, but I never got around to it before 
she died. Today
with e-mail and more addresses available, it's much easier to write to
authors and just ask. I do tend discount what 1421 says, although I have to
admit that I rather like the volume that says Marco Polo never went to China
that came out several years ago. (Did Marco Polo Go to China? by Frances 
Wood)
It neatly resolves some of those food problems with Polo.

Johnnae

>>snipped--
>>There has always been this nagging bother that certain reference books
>>have listed that they had pomidoros (the tomato) in Italy in like the 
>>12th century.
>>Sources like Theodora Fitzgibbon's The Foods of the Western World.
>>An Encyclopedia of Food from North America and Europe.
>>New York: Quadrangle/the New York Times Book Company, 1976 say this.
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>>Johnnae
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