[Aztlan] 10 Maya foods that changed the world's eating habits

[John F. Schwaller]

As much as I would love to attribute to the Aztecs the origins of the
tomato, it was in fact domesticated millenia before the Mexica left
Aztlan.  They merely provided the name for the Europeans.  The Nahuatl
name "tomatl" however, refers to the green husked tomato we call the
tomatillo.  The red, or brown or pink, tomato they called the "xitomatl."



"John E. Staller" <jstaller at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Thanks Nick,
> You are quite right. Mesoamerica is the proper term, since cultigens
> such as tomatoes were in fact first domesticated by the Aztec,....
> John E. Staller
>
>


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