Europeans once believed this purple-skinned cousin to the tomato caused insanity
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Fru1ts & Vegetab1es Flashcards | Quizlet  It's Tennessee's state fruit!--though some might call it a vegetable. tomato ... kohlrabi probably developed from a wild European coastal type of this vegetable ... NEWER FRUITS & VEGETABLES $800: A blight-resistant purple one of these from .... FRUITS & VEGETABLES $400: This fuzzy-skinned fruit associated with New...
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The Mad Apple | A Foodie's Quest  Aug 14, 2010 ... ... the poor thing, cousin to the 'poisonous' tomato, was believed to cause insanity, ... long, thin, and dark purple Asians; football-sized oblong 'regulars'; small, ... When choosing eggplants, make sure their skin is glossy; their flesh firm with ... In fact, one can almost call this a Coriander and Eggplant salad.
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An average tomato provides about 35 calories & about 40% of the ...  Jul 6, 2016 ... Europeans once believed this purple-skinned cousin to the tomato caused insanity # Quiz # Question. 0:29. FirstAmVideo. No views...
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Free Flashcards about FRUITS & VEGETABLES - StudyStack  EUROPEANS ONCE BELIEVED THIS PURPLE-SKINNED COUSIN TO THE TOMATO CAUSED INSANITY, EGGPLANT. SYRUP ORIGINALLY MADE FROM...
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Why the Tomato Was Feared in Europe for More Than 200 Years ...  Jun 18, 2013 ... One of the earliest-known European references to the food was made by the Italian ... Around this time it was also believed that tomatoes were best eaten in hotter .... Lead poisoning in ancient times was caused by the practice of .... thin-skinned and purple) at the Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens in the...
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Epileptogenic - WikiVisually  Oct 6, 2016 ... Established acquired causes include serious brain trauma, stroke, ..... If a person has a previous diagnosis of epilepsy with previous ..... The Greeks thought that important figures such as Julius Caesar and Hercules had the disease. ... was known as the morbus comitialis ('disease of the assembly hall') and...
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J! Archive - Show #4982, aired 2006-04-18  "Roman Holiday", "American Graffiti", "The French Connection". $600, 9. It's believed tomatoes were first eaten & cultivated on this continent...
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Ask me a trivia question - Discussion on Topix  Nov 15, 2009 ... This Swedish phenomenon married her accompianist, Otto Goldschmidt, in 1852. Was this Jenny Lind? Reply . Report Abuse Judge it!
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 --  Topix  Reply. John Charles Daly. Apr 28, 2012. ` This Frenchman put himself & his cousin Tapie in his 1892 painting "At the Moulin Rouge". Report Abuse. 0. 0. Reply.
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The History of French Fries - Today I Found Out  Sep 23, 2010 ... Potatoes were first introduced to Europe not through the French or Belgians, but ... modern day Belgium at the time the Spanish introduced the potato to Europe. ... to a French army medical officer named Antoine-Augustine Parmentier, ... So it's possible that the French soldiers were introduced to fries by the...
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Study Finds King Ludwig II May Not Have Been Crazy - Spiegel Online  Jan 31, 2014 ... People have long believed that Bavarian King Ludwig II, the man responsible for ... Mad King Ludwig? ... The diagnosis led to Ludwig's being dethroned on June 10, 1886. Three days later he -- and, mysteriously, Gudden -- drowned in what is now called ... But did that warrant his being declared insane?
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J! Archive - Show #3047, aired 1997-11-25  In 1997 2 Dutch growers unveiled "Blackjack", the darkest species of this .... In 1997 Albanians rebelled after losing their savings in these financial schemes...
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J! Archive - Show #3197, aired 1998-06-23  He calls Claudius "Treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!" -- but not ... The queen calls him "That bottled spider, that foul bunch-backed toad!"...
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  May 31, 2011 ... This somewhat coarse root vegetable is also called a swede or a Swedish turnip. Reply . Report Abuse Judge it! Fifth Generation. Since: Oct...
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Playing God in the Garden | Michael Pollan  Oct 25, 1998 ... You're probably wondering if I plan to eat these potatoes, or serve them to my family. ... I untied the purple mesh bag of seed potatoes that Monsanto had sent and ..... to control late blight, one of the biggest threats to the potato crop. ... like the problem of Bt resistance I had heard so much about back East.
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