My First Roman Feast

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Wow, nice dish!

I was under the impression that tomatoes are native to south/central america and were only spread to europe after the spaniards arrival though?

You are correct, they are from south America ... I use them only because I thought they would taste good with the leeks (they did). Well, I never said the dish was historically accurate, :lol:

Ah yes off course, the dish does look very tasty, I was just confused as Volker mentioned this recipe book:

Looks great! In which Roman recipe did you find the tomatoes?

They are found in the little known 'Liber de Coquinaria Vulgus' where they are mentioned as 'pomi rubri de insulis Hesperiis'. Also our source for 'isicia caseata intra Alexandrinum panis' and 'salsa de rubris pomis vulgariter catsup vocatur'. A very popular cookbook among the Roman reenactment crowd.

And I was wondering if that was from roman times or post-columbus times...