[Sca-cooks] Evidence of tomato eating in late 16th century Italy/Germany?

[Johnna Holloway]

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?