num_pages: 224
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 16th-century Europe. Then follows path of the tomato back across the Atlantic to 19th-century 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 Studiesv. 58.
language: English
title: The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture, and Cookery
publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr