The Tomato in America

Early History, Culture, and Cookery

• Author(s): Andrew F. Smith,
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
• Pages: 224
• ISBN_10: 1570030006
  ISBN_13: 9781570030000
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Cooking / Specific Ingredients / Fruit , Cooking / History , Science / Life Sciences / Horticulture , Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science ,

Description:... "Serious scholarly study traces biological origins of the tomato and evolution of human attitude toward its use from preconquest western South America, the Central America isthmus, and Mexico to 16thcentury Europe. Then follows path of the tomato back across the Atlantic to 19thcentury US. Also identifies another possible route for the tomato from the Caribbean to southeastern US. Drawn from scientific, medical, and historical works as well as traditional cookbooks"Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58