[Sca-cooks] Tomatoes

[Terry Decker]

What's the basis for 1542?  Cortez returned to Spain from the conquest of 
Mexico in 1528 and it is very probable that tomatoes returned with him.  The 
first European reference to tomatoes is in Mattioli's Herbal of 1544 (or 
1542  or 1543, depending on source).  Dodoens provided a further description 
in 1554.  The tomato appears in the painting The Angel's Kitchen (Murillo, 
1646) which is the first thing that ties it to European cooking that I know 
of.  The first recipe appears in 1692/94.

Bear


> Straight up question
> I am finding 1542 for the possability of tomates ending up in Spain 
> shortly after Cortez conquests. Anyone find anything earlier.
> Da