[MR] Food question

[Cian of Storvik]

I hate to state the obvious but:
Wikpedia and About dot Com both have interesting write
ups on the tomato. As Gorm points out the Spanish ate
the tomato as early as the 1540's, that were
cultivated from the Americas. And the Italians ate a
domestic plant, with yellow fruit as Gorm also points
out refered to as Pomo d'oro. "love apples"

For the English they knew the Spanish and Italians
consumed the fruit, but didn't eat the fruit
themselves, though cultivated it ornamentally, from
atleast the 1590's. 

Read all about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato
http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/aa071601a.htm
-Cian