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Not Your Garden Variety Tomato: Why Europeans Believed This Fruit Would Kill You
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Not Your Garden Variety Tomato: Why Europeans Believed This Fruit Would Kill You

In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors returned to Spain with a most unusual souvenir of their conquest of the Americas: a small, yellow, cherry-sized fruit, which was a favorite foodstuff with the…

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