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04: Italian Tomatoes

Feb 01, 202236 minEp. 4
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Episode description

Today's episode is on tomatoes, and how they became ubiquitous in Italian cuisine. This thread of history stretches back to the founding of European kingdoms, Columbus and his discovery of America, and the Columbian exchange which brought a number of products from the new world to the old world of Europe.

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