Re: SF Cookbook?

On Apr 30, 10:47 pm, Gene <g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> DouhetSukd <DouhetS...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:b87fc08a-00aa-4a8a-ab0f-
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> > Can you think of Italian cooking without tomatoes???
>
> I read about an archeological excavation of a Roman pizza oven, and ever
> since wondered how cheese, sausage, anchovies and garlic, with no
tomatoes,
> worked as a pizza recipe.

Sure?  IIRC pizzas were invented in the 19th or 20th century.  By a
baker for some Queen Margarita.  There were surely some precursors
though.  My guess is they unearthed something that looks like a pizza
oven, but never had any pizza in it.

For example, paninis are also a very recent Italian invention.

In general, the amount of new foods and spices that came in from the
New World and from India/China means that we would probably consider
pre-Renaissance European cooking to be bland and tasteless (as well as
unhealthily devoid of veggies for the upper cl*****).

Anyway, glad you ended not getting too miffed about my little
caliphate rants :-)  It wasn't my intention.