Jitomate o Tomate: La Historia Mexicana Detrás de la Pizza Italiana

The story of the tomato: from Mexico to the world. A fruit that Europe feared for centuries, until Italy put it on pizza. And we close with an 18th-century Neapolitan marinara sauce. ⏱️Contents: 00:00 Introduction 01:18 Tomato or tomato? 02:25 Mesoamerica: The tomato in Mexico 04:13 European fear of the tomato 05:36 The myth of the poisonous tomato 06:50 Mexico, Italy, and pizza 08:08 The tomato conquers the world 08:49 The Mexican tomato business 09:38 18th-century Neapolitan marinara sauce 11:06 Without Mexico, there is no pizza Sources: 1. Vela, Enrique and María Nieves Noriega — 'Tomate y jitomate', Arqueología Mexicana, special issue no. 122, pp. 74-75. arqueologiamexicana.mx 2. Montúfar López, Aurora — Archaeobotany of the INAH. Identification of tomato seeds in Offering 36 of the Templo Mayor, Valley of Mexico, ~2,500 years old. 3. Díaz del Castillo, Bernal — 'True History of the Conquest of New Spain', 16th century. Reference to 'peppers, tomatoes, and salt' in Cholula. 4. Hernández, Francisco — 'History of the Plants of New Spain', 1570-1575. First scientific description of the tomato for the Spanish Crown. 5. México Desconocido — 'The tomato, the pre-Hispanic fruit that Mexico gave to the world'. mexicodesconocido.com.mx 6. La Jornada del Campo — 'The tomato, a bit of history'. Data on archaeological seeds from the INAH. jornada.com.mx 7. La Jornada — 'Tomato exports to the US fell 12% this year.' 2024 data: 1,880,000 tons, $3.339 billion USD. jornada.com.mx 8. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development — 'Mexican tomatoes among the top five agricultural products generating foreign exchange.' gob.mx/agricultura 9. History of pizza — Wikipedia. Pizza marinara 1734, Naples. es.wikipedia.org 10. Gourmet de México — 'Did you know that for a time tomatoes were considered poisonous?' gourmetdemexico.com.mx