[Sca-cooks] Tomatoes( Philip)

[Micheal]

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From: "marilyn traber 011221" <phlip at 99main.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Tomatoes


 You may want to take this up with the tourist board for the city of 
Valencia  Spain. They advertise it as authentic since Medieval Times. I 
simply trying to find out where they consider the term Medieval ends . 
Tomatoes being the question since Valencia Paella has tomatoes or at least 
thats the recipe they present.
 Da
> You might want to slow down a bit. Just because there was a dish called
> paella pre-1600, doesan't mean it contained tomatoes. As an example for
> comparison, there was most definitely a dish called gazpacho pre-1600, but
> extant recipes show no tomatoes- it seems it was called gazpacho because 
> it
> used soaked bread as a thickener.
>
> Phlip
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