[Sca-cooks] Fw: [Summits] Fw: Officially Period...the tomato

[Ian Kusz]

In Alaska, people who were into home-crafting made ketchup from a berry
which we called, "Highbush cranberry."  Completely not related to
cranberries, you find the bushes by smelling for dirty socks.



On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
> wrote:

> <<< Marinara sauce is a stretch.
> Ketchup on the other hand . . .  :)
> Eduardo >>>
>
> Er, yes and no.
>
> I *think* marinara sauce is always made from tomatoes.
>
> But from pervious discussions here, ketchup originally came from the far
> east and was brought back by the British. And while it came in a variety of
> flavors from a variety of fruits and vegetables, tomatoes weren't one of
> them. I think it originally came from the Far East. So while the concept may
> be period, I believe it was in America that tomato catsup was first created.
> Well past period.
>
> These have already been mentioned, but here are the Florilegium files on
> tomatoes in period.
>
> Tomatoes-art (22K) 10/15/06 "Love, Death or Mere Curiosity? The Tomato in
> Renaissance Europe" by Mistress Renata Kestryl of Highwynds
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-VEGETABLES/Tomatoes-art.html
>
> 16C-Tomato-art (16K) 9/ 5/02 "Sixteenth Century Italian and Spanish Tomato
> References" by Johnnae llyn Lewis, Helewyse de Birkestad, and Brighid ni
> Chiarain.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-VEGETABLES/16C-Tomato-art.html
>
> tomato-hist-art (18K) 2/ 1/99 "You say tomato I say Xitomatl" by Lord
> Xaviar the Eccentric.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-VEGETABLES/tomato-hist-art.html
>
> Stefan
>
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