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Tomatoes are relatively late addition to european cuisine (1500ish), there would be influences from a silk for centuries before. It sounds quite probable.
by me_me_me 3y ago
Tomatoes are relatively late addition to european cuisine (1500ish), there would be influences from a silk for centuries before. It sounds quite probable.
- SeanLuke 3y agoThis comment sounds like you might mistakenly think tomatoes are Chinese.
- me_me_me 3y agoI meant the origin for the word ketchup might have came as word for some type of sauce from the silk road, or tale of it from merchants eating it while traveling the silk road
- huytersd 3y agoNot sure exactly what you’re saying but the Europeans brought tomatoes to India and East Asia.
- supertofu 3y agoA reminder that tomatoes are native to South America, and did not exist anywhere else until colonization of the Americas.
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- okr 3y agoThank god for coloni, umm, borderless migration of people!