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The tomato is a crucial and ubiquitous part of Middle Eastern cuisine, served fresh in salads (e.g., Arab salad, Israeli salad, Shirazi salad and Turkish salad), grilled with kebabs and other dishes, made into sauces, and so on. [90] Tomatoes were gradually incorporated into Indian curry dishes after Europeans introduced them. [91]
Pomodoro means 'tomato' in Italian. [1] More specifically, pomodoro is a univerbation of pomo ('apple') + d ('of') + oro ('gold'), [2] possibly owing to the fact that the first varieties of tomatoes arriving in Europe and spreading from Spain to Italy and North Africa were yellow, with the earliest attestation (of the archaic plural form pomi d'oro) going back to Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1544).
[5] Pliny the Elder writes extensively about agriculture from books XII to XIX; in fact, XVIII is The Natural History of Grain. [6] Crops grown on Roman farms included wheat, barley, millet, pea, broad bean, lentil, flax, sesame, chickpea, hemp, turnip, olives, pear, apples, figs, and plums. Others in the Mediterranean include:
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This book was the first to give the tomato a central role with 13 recipes. Tomatoes are a typical part of Italian cuisine, but only entered common usage in the late 18th century. [49] Zuppa al pomodoro (lit. ' tomato soup ') in Corrado's book is a dish similar to today's Tuscan pappa al pomodoro.
Tomatoes were brought to Europe in the early 1500s. The English botanist John Gerard was one of the first cultivators of the tomato plant. In his publication Grete Herball, he considered tomatoes poisonous due to their levels of what would later be called tomatine, plus high acid content. Consequently, tomatoes were generally not eaten in ...
Food historian Lois Ellen Frank calls potatoes, tomatoes, corn, beans, squash, chili, cacao, and vanilla the "magic eight" ingredients that were found and used only in the Americas before 1492 and were taken via the Columbian Exchange back to the Old World, dramatically transforming the cuisine there. [17] [18] [19] According to Frank, [20]
His son George Nomikos founded the Vlychada tomato processing plant in 1945, naming it after his father. [2] Prior to a volcanic eruption in 1950, Santorini was known as "tomato island". [3] Tomatoes were a significant crop on the island, which over centuries had developed a variety suited to the volcanic soils and needing little water. [1]