[Sca-cooks] Tomatoes

[Micheal]

 Been doing research actually into Paella checking out recipes and led me to 
tomatoes, everything else is well documented. So my last question was 
tomatoes.
 The last I read was an article By Sam Cox , December 2000 ya I know a web 
address.
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~samcox/Tomato.html
 I been looking around and basically I beginning to believe anywhere within 
1492 -1600 has a chance of being correct. More likely towards 1600 rather 
then earlier . Basically I saying some where around 1600 give or take a few 
years.
 Da
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry Decker" <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Tomatoes


> 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
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