[Sca-cooks] Evidence of tomato eating in late 16th century Italy/Germany?
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Sat Feb 12 17:55:25 PST 2011
As Baroness Helewyse mentioned on 10 February
I wrote more on New World food in 16th century Italy later, including
more on
the tomato and why I don't think that it was cultivated or eaten
widely. That
is also in the florilegium.
And also on my website:
http://www.medievalcookery.com/helewyse/files/newworld.pdf
Helewyse
Perhaps that provides what you are seeking.
Johnnae
On Feb 12, 2011, at 6:38 PM, David Friedman wrote:
> I haven't been following this discussion, since I thought it was
> well established that tomatoes were being eaten by the end of or
> period. There's a quote somewhere about their being eaten fried in
> oil in Italy; someone may already have mentioned it. On the other
> hand, with tomatoes and some other very late period foodstuffs,
> while we have evidence that they were eaten we don't know much about
> how. Does anyone have an actual period recipe using tomatoes?
> Potatoes? Maize? Peanuts?
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