[Sca-cooks] Tomatoes( was Philip)

[Terry Decker]

Actually, I see many questions to be answered.

Are there any dishes preceding the Medieval period that resemble paella? 
What are they?  Where do they originate?  Are the possible harbingers of 
paella?  I kinda think paella derives from some similar Roman recipes, but I 
haven't seriously pursued it.

What similar dishes appear in the Medieval and Spanish corpus?  How do they 
compare with some of the modern recipes for paella?

When did the name of the dish and the name of the pan it's cooked in become 
synonymous?

When do tomatoes first make their appearance in paella?  How does the 
original paella with tomatoes compare to the modern recipe?

Lots of fun research there.

Bear


> So what's the goal of your research project here? Are we trying to  prove 
> paella is a period dish because there's a period vessel with a  similar 
> name, or are we trying to prove that period paella is similar  to modern 
> paella (which may or may not prove to be the case)?
>
> Adamantius