Tomato (Morocco, 1671)

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:41 AM -0400 5/9/02, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>OED has 1604, then 1775 for "tomato."  Andrew Smith wrote a book on
>the tomato, although it was the tomato in America...I think a copy
>of this book is in Yale...

Yes, but it doesn't sound too obscure:

The tomato in America : early history, culture, and cookery
Andrew F. Smith.
Published:      Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c1994.

LH