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

[Daniel Myers]

On May 16, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Johnna Holloway wrote:

> I don't have the time to dig into this at the moment. I have  
> another medical appointment
> this am and I have to leave for that.
>
> 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.

Linguistic side note:  "pomidoros" makes me think of "pomme d'or" -  
French for "golden apple".

Huh.  Babelfish says that the Italian for "golden apple" is "mela  
dorata", and that "pomi dora" is "knobs gild".  "pomidoros" as all  
one word doesn't translate.

- Doc


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