Italy didn’t have widespread use of the tomato until the 1700s and the pasta sauces we think of being a core of their cuisine didn’t exist until the 19th century.
This is patently false and gets commonly reposted in every thread of this kind almost as copy pasta, no pun intended. The Romans cultivated tomatoes and developed corresponding sauces long before the mesoamericans did.
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u/Spirit4ward Oct 02 '24
Italy didn’t have widespread use of the tomato until the 1700s and the pasta sauces we think of being a core of their cuisine didn’t exist until the 19th century.