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Why Tudor England Refused to Eat Tomatoes For 200 Years

Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors by Heather Teysko

Apr 17, 202620:42Society & Culture

The story of how a respected Elizabethan botanist looked at a tomato, applied perfectly logical medical reasoning, and concluded that English people shouldn't eat one, and why it took two hundred years for anyone to prov...

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Why Tudor England Refused to Eat Tomatoes For 200 Years is an episode from Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors by Heather Teysko. The story of how a respected Elizabethan botanist looked at a tomato, applied perfect...

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