[Sca-cooks] Tomatoes

[Micheal]

 Hand mind not connecting  1492-1550 what I meant not 1600. Sorry I hates 
days lie today.
 Da

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Micheal" <dmreid at hfx.eastlink.ca>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Tomatoes


> 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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