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The Contentious History of the Cherry Tomato - by Danny Lewis/ SmartNews:Keeping You Current/ SmithsonianMag.com
"The salad topper has a long and fraught history.
For decades, the cherry tomato has been a staple of summer salads and other dishes. But the tiny, sweet treat wasn’t always a standard in side dishes. Indeed, it didn't become a popular feature in Western meals until the 1980s. As it turns out, though, the little cherry tomato has had a curious history that intertwines commercialism, nationalism and, of course, the search for the best flavor, co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley report for "Gastropod", a podcast that explores the science and history behind food.
To understand the bite-size snack, it is important to go back to the very beginnings of the tomato as a domesticated crop. While the wild tomato may have originated in the Andes in South America, according to the British Tomato Growers’ Association, it was cultivated by the Incas and Aztecs in Mexico sometime around 700 A.D. In fact, the word “tomato” is derived from the Aztec word “tomatl”. While the first tomatoes were tiny, pea-sized plant that grew in wild clusters like grapes, Central American growers transformed them into something quite different..."
(www.bluewaikiki.com via Flickr)
Richard
"The salad topper has a long and fraught history.
For decades, the cherry tomato has been a staple of summer salads and other dishes. But the tiny, sweet treat wasn’t always a standard in side dishes. Indeed, it didn't become a popular feature in Western meals until the 1980s. As it turns out, though, the little cherry tomato has had a curious history that intertwines commercialism, nationalism and, of course, the search for the best flavor, co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley report for "Gastropod", a podcast that explores the science and history behind food.
To understand the bite-size snack, it is important to go back to the very beginnings of the tomato as a domesticated crop. While the wild tomato may have originated in the Andes in South America, according to the British Tomato Growers’ Association, it was cultivated by the Incas and Aztecs in Mexico sometime around 700 A.D. In fact, the word “tomato” is derived from the Aztec word “tomatl”. While the first tomatoes were tiny, pea-sized plant that grew in wild clusters like grapes, Central American growers transformed them into something quite different..."
(www.bluewaikiki.com via Flickr)
Richard