New World Culinary Wonders: Tomatoes and ChilesConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 741, Segment 1
Nov 12, 2020 • 29m
Guest: Jenny Linford, author of “The Seven Culinary Wonders of the World: A History of Honey, Salt, Chile, Pork, Rice, Cacao, and Tomato”
When the New World was discovered, it completely changed the culinary world forever. Take tomatoes and chiles. Anything but commonplace, these extremely diverse fruits are so intrinsic to much of the world’s cuisine that we often forget that they arrived on the world culinary scene only recently.