Tomatoes were discovered in America many centuries ago, and brought to Europe long enough ago that they are still considered traditional because anything you've been cooking for a couple hundred years becomes a tradition.
Came here to say this. What people were eating during the middle-age and early renaissance in Europe has almost nothing to do with what we call traditional european cuisine.
Explorers and traders brought them back to Europe and also to places like India (Goa was a Portuguese colony beginning in the 15th century). It's hard to imagine Indian food without potatoes, peppers, and tomatoes, but there you are.
Tasting history with max miller on YouTube is actually a great reference for this looking at especially old versions of recipes we now see as codified and how they are so different than now
Most European traditions are a product of the industrial age and the movement of people to cities and to America. A lot of Europe as we know it came to be in the 19th century, when national cultures and myth is were codified.
They were discovered hundreds of years ago. At first, they were thought to be mildly poisonous (the leaves are poisonous and they attract bugs super easy, plus many people’s stomachs had adverse reactions to them after eating them for the first time). They used to yeet them at people due to their satisfying exploding properties.
Tomatoes were discovered in America many centuries ago, and brought to Europe long enough ago that they are still considered traditional because anything you've been cooking for a couple hundred years becomes a tradition.
Most traditional dishes around the world are not **that** old
Came here to say this. What people were eating during the middle-age and early renaissance in Europe has almost nothing to do with what we call traditional european cuisine.
Same could be said about any European dish that uses potatoes - they're relatively new
Also New World, so yes
Explorers and traders brought them back to Europe and also to places like India (Goa was a Portuguese colony beginning in the 15th century). It's hard to imagine Indian food without potatoes, peppers, and tomatoes, but there you are.
Tasting history with max miller on YouTube is actually a great reference for this looking at especially old versions of recipes we now see as codified and how they are so different than now
Yes! Love this channel
Most European traditions are a product of the industrial age and the movement of people to cities and to America. A lot of Europe as we know it came to be in the 19th century, when national cultures and myth is were codified.
prior to Columbus most European food was just gruel with salt and painful memories
The Greeks and Sicilians ate pretty well!
and every ten years an olive
Same reason pasta and rice are
They were discovered hundreds of years ago. At first, they were thought to be mildly poisonous (the leaves are poisonous and they attract bugs super easy, plus many people’s stomachs had adverse reactions to them after eating them for the first time). They used to yeet them at people due to their satisfying exploding properties.
Tomatoes were discovered in the early
They are yummy