"The Joneses" > wrote in message
...

> I remember seeing a food history show recently. We all think of tomatoes
> as a
> basis for "authentic" Italian cooking, but the tomato didn't make it
> across the
> big pond until after Colombus. Course it's been over 400 years ...

I sure don't think that. Just because red sauce italian restaurants abound
doesn't
mean we think it's authentic Eyetalian qzeen. Tomatoes are from the
Americas.

nancy