Yellow Tomatoe

Yellow Tomatoe

About This Painting:

Yellow rather than red.

The tomatoe is native to western South America and Central America. In 1519, Cortez discovered tomatoes growing in Montezuma's gardens and brought seeds back to Europe where they were planted as ornamental curiosities, but not eaten. Most likely the first variety to reach Europe was yellow in color, since in Spain and Italy they were known as pomi d'oro, meaning yellow apples.

Italy was the first to embrace and cultivate the tomatoe outside South America. The French referred to the tomatoe as pommes d'amour, or love apples, as they thought them to have stimulating aphrodisiacal properties.

In 1897, soup mogul Joseph Campbell came out with condensed tomatoe soup, a move that set the company on the road to wealth as well as further endearing the tomato to the general public. Campbell may have made tomato soup popular, but the first recipe is credited to Maria Parloa whose 1872 book The Appledore Cook Book describes her tomatoe chowder.

6x6x1 1/2
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas
wired and ready to hang

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 6 in (15.2 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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