[Sca-cooks] Officially period... the tomato

[wheezul at canby.com]

Unfortunately, the whole post was taken out of context of a household
conversation.  I meant for it only to be forwarded to a few people and the
stupid thing went viral and I certainly didn't give permission to forward
to this august list.  Without a lot of background, my "period" and persona
would encompass me perhaps knowing the tidbit written in the herbal.  So
it would be, while questionably "dangerous" and wild, within the realm of
possibility of trying tomatoes cooked in oil and vinegar and Matthioli
suggests the Italians did.  Never again will I allow a forward.  Cheese.

Katherine

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>
> Here's my $.02 on the subject:  Declaring something to be "period" is
> pointless without a place and time.
>
> No amount of research is going to make tomatoes period for 14th century
> France, or 13th century England, etc.
>
> Of course, if "period" is taken to mean "within the scope of times and
> places 're-created' in the SCA" then just about anything is "period".
>
> - Doc (who, if you couldn't tell, is really getting to hate the term)
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