[Sca-cooks] Tomatoes??????

[Johnna Holloway]

Tomato= New World
See our article 
http://home.comcast.net/~iasmin/mkcc/MKCCfiles/16thCITomatoReferences.html

Sixteenth Century Italian and Spanish Tomato References

by THL Johnnae llyn Lewis, Mistress Helewyse de Birkestad  and Mistress 
Brighid ni Chiarain

Johnnae

Caius Fabius wrote:

> I am reading a book of recipes that supposedly recreate Mesopotamian 
> and Egyptian feasts.
> The author had ingredients lists including tomatos and tomato paste.  
> I had assumed that
> tomatos were a "New World" food, like "Irish Potatos" and "Indian 
> Corn".  Is there any evidence of tomatoes in Egypt or Persia before 
> the 1500's AD?
> Thank you Caius Fabius