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Default Are you buying fake San Marzano tomatoes???

jmcquown wrote:
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> IIRC the US (it wasn't the US yet) introduced tomatoes to Italy and hence
> introduced tomatoes to Italian cuisine. I'm thinking Christopher Columbus.
> Might even go as far back as Marco Polo (who introduced pasta to Italy from
> China). I'm sure not buying imported canned tomatoes when I can buy the
> same thing that is grown and canned locally.


Tomatoes are a New World food. Marco Polo never
travelled to the New World, and it's debatable
whether he even made it to China.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024221

And he certainly didn't introduce pasta to Italy.