Dennis Montey wrote:

> Have tomatoes always been available in India/Pakistan region or are they
> johnny-come-latelies which have been incorporated as has occurred in
> Italian cuisine? When and how were they introduced?
>
Why do you think tomatoes are new to Italy? Cortes arrived in Mexico
around 1519 where he found tomatoes and they are described in Italian
herbals just a few years later. If you mean that tomatoes were not in
Italy in the year 1000 A.D or weren't around in 500 B.C., then you are
quite right. Cortes and Columbus also brought peppers to the new world
and they made it ASAP to India/Pakistan, probably in the same crate with
a tomato plant.

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