[Sca-cooks] Question for Adamantius?

[edoard at medievalcookery.com]

> -------- Original Message --------
> From: "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius1 at verizon.net>
> 
> But I've also had extensive, rather astonishing conversations with people
> from various parts of China, prepared to swear that maize, capsicums, potatoes,
> etc., are all native to China and have been a part of their cuisine[s] since
> the emergence of homo erectus.


I've had that same conversation with a coworker from India.  It didn't
matter what evidence I offered, he still insisted that tomatoes and
capsicum peppers both originated in his home country.

- Doc