[Sca-cooks] Tomatoes( was Philip)

[Huette von Ahrens]

According to the Oxford Companion to Food, there is a similar 
dish to Paella in the Libro de Sent Sovi.  But with no tomatoes.

Huette 

--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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