[Sca-cooks] Tomatoes( Philip)

[marilyn traber 011221]

> 
>  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

I have no intention of taking it up with the Valencia tourist board, or anyone
else. You brought the topic up, and I was cautionong YOU, not tourist boards
or anyone else against false leaps of intuition.

As it happens, paella, as a terem, is as versatile as the term "stew" is.
Depending on the region, paella can have any number of variations, and many of
those are without tomatoes. The prime commonality seems to be rice and
saffron- after that, seafood, but there are rustic variations with lamb
sausage instead of seafood, and all of these are with and without tomatoes.
Take a look at the Petit Larousse, if you like.

And the Valencia tourist board may dispense such information and
misinformation as its greedy-for-tourist-dollars heart desires.

Phlip