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01-10-2020
Column: Food for Thought - CHICKEN CACCIATORE
Column: Food for Thought - CHICKEN CACCIATORE
Cacciatore roughly translates in Italian as hunter. This is because this rustic hearty dish was developed by early Italian hunters and was originally made with wild vegetables and herbs. The traditional meat was rabbit. The addition of tomatoes came much later when they were made fashionable to eat early in the 18th century.
Did you know that when the Conquistadors returned from the newly found Americas, they brought back with them a whole gamut of new and interesting vegetables? The tomato was one of them. The only problem was the nickname for the fruit. It became known as the “poison apple” because it was thought that the rich got sick and died after eating them, but the truth of the matter was that wealthy Europeans used pewter plates, which were high in lead content.
Because tomatoes are so high in acidity, when placed on this particular tableware, the fruit would leach lead from the plate, resulting in many deaths from lead poisoning. No one made this connection between plate and poison at the time; t

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