[Sca-cooks] Tomatoes( Philip)

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Da wrote:
>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 that's the recipe they present.

Surely you jest. I wouldn't trust a Tourist Board anywhere to be 
telling the truth. They're trying to hook tourists, not historical 
researchers :-) Clearly, tomatoes have not been in Spain since 
Medieval times, since they were not discovered until the late 
Renaissance.

Now, ignoring the Valencia Tourist Board...

doing research to find the earliest surviving recipe for paella or a 
paella-like dish, and doing research to find the earliest recipe 
including tomatoes is meaningful.
-- 
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita