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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Small Tomato Sprawl Scrawl</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SMALL TOMATO SPRAWL SCRAWL<br>Kindly refer to notes </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>We’re tomatoes [b]red together, <br>dependant on capricious weather<br>happy-go-lucky hell-for-leather<br>advancing, never asking whether<br>we’ll end in bird crop, rot, - whatever <br>providing seeds sprout on forever.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * * * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Read of the facts that history<br>recounts for all posterity.<br>Around five hundred years ago, <br>learn, inwardly digest, and know<br>cerasiforme – like a cherry –<br>appearance then, as tiny tree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Columbus brought us ‘cross the sea<br>in fourteen hundred ninety three, <br>Mattioli's Herbal mentionned though<br>he thought us poison pomi d’oro – <br>gold apple – red then none could see.<br>We came through Spain to Italy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Across Atlantic bravely we<br>sailed in the fifteenth century, <br>though there’s some evidence to show<br>that ‘stout Cortez’ from Mexico<br>imported us as seeds or tree<br>the Aztecs called xitomatli.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Aztecs added salt, chili, <br>to make their salsa formerly, <br>as sprawling vine the tomato<br>advances and is wont to grow<br>up reaching sometimes metres three –<br>as many yards for backyards’ glee. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before first cookbook recipe<br>Time flew with true celerity –<br>Two hundred years - and why so slow? <br>Confused with Deadly Nightshade’s glow <br>or Belladonna’s poison pea -<br>witch wolf-peach named in Germany</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Book edited in Napoli<br>began tamed famed name followed free<br>after some fifty years or so<br>by other authors in the know, <br>by Glass’s ‘Art of Cookery’<br>to flavour soup, ingredient key.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Peru six variety<br>still grow as they were meant to be; <br>unlike the lowly potato<br>no vegetable, fruit yellow<br>to bunch for brunch or sandwich, tea: <br>sprawl scrawl hastes good taste poetry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>18 August 2009<br>robi03_1895_robi03_0000 WXX_MNX </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Author notes<br>Words in brakets convey two or more meanings<br>[b]red = red bed bred</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Tomatoes belong to the genus Lycopersicon, Solanaceae family. Evidence supports the theory the first domesticated tomato was a little yellow fruit, ancestor of L. cerasiforme, growing around and possibly eaten by the Aztecs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First mentioned in European literature in 1544, herbal by Italian physician and botanist Pietro Andrea Mattioli, who named it pomi d’oro, golden apple. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Related to deadly nightshade (Atropus belladonna) which gave a false impression of being poisonous </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first cookbook to mention tomatoes was published in Naples Italy in 1692. By 1752 English cooks used tomatoes in the flavoring of soups, and in 1758 a tomato recipe appeared in The Art of Cookery by Hannah Glass. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘stout Cortez’ - John Keats - On First Looking in Chapman's Homer</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q>
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We’re tomatoes [b]red together, 
dependant on capricious weather
happy-go-lucky hell-for-leather
advancing, never asking whether
we’ll end in bird crop, rot, - whatever 
providing seeds sprou..."></div>
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