Tomato

The exact date of domestication is unknown; by 500 BC, it was already being cultivated in southern [[Mexico]] and probably other areas.{{sfn|Smith|1994|p=13}} The [[Pueblo]] people believed that tomato seeds could confer powers of [[divination]]. The large, lumpy variety of tomato, a mutation from a smoother, smaller fruit, originated in Mesoamerica, and may be the direct ancestor of some modern cultivated tomatoes.{{sfn|Smith|1994|p=15}}

The exact date of domestication is unknown; by 500 BC, it was already being cultivated in southern [[Mexico]] and probably other areas.{{sfn|Smith|1994|p=13}} The [[Pueblo]] people believed that tomato seeds could confer powers of [[divination]]. The large, lumpy variety of tomato, a mutation from a smoother, smaller fruit, originated in Mesoamerica, and may be the direct ancestor of some modern cultivated tomatoes.{{sfn|Smith|1994|p=15}}

The [[Aztecs]] raised several varieties of tomato, with red tomatoes called {{lang|nci|xitomatl}} and green tomatoes (physalis) called {{lang|nci|tomatl}} ([[tomatillo]]).<ref>{{cite book |last=Townsend |first=Richard F. |title=The Aztecs |publisher=Thames and Hudson |year=2000 |pages=180–181}}</ref> [[Bernardino de Sahagún]] reported seeing a great variety of tomatoes in the Aztec market at Tenochtitlán (Mexico City): "large tomatoes, small tomatoes, leaf tomatoes, sweet tomatoes, large serpent tomatoes, nipple-shaped tomatoes", and tomatoes of all colors from the brightest red to the deepest yellow.<ref>{{cite book |last=Silvertown |first=J. |year=2017 |title=Vegetables—Variety. Dinner with Darwin: Food, drink, and evolution |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |page=102}}</ref> Sahagún mentioned Aztecs cooking various sauces, some with tomatoes of different sizes, serving them in city markets: "foods sauces, hot sauces; ... with tomatoes, ... sauce of large tomatoes, sauce of ordinary tomatoes, ..."<ref name="Coe-2015">{{cite book |last=Coe |first=Sophie D. |author-link=Sophie Coe |title=America's First Cuisines |publisher=University of Texas Press |location=Austin, Texas |date=2015 |orig-year=1994 |pages=108–118<!--(page 117)--> |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hKVbCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA117 |isbn=978-1477309711}}</ref>

The [[Aztecs]] raised several varieties of tomato, with red tomatoes called {{lang|nci|xitomatl}}.<ref>{{cite book |last=Townsend |first=Richard F. |title=The Aztecs |publisher=Thames and Hudson |year=2000 |pages=180–181}}</ref> [[Bernardino de Sahagún]] reported seeing a great variety of tomatoes in the Aztec market at Tenochtitlán (Mexico City): "large tomatoes, small tomatoes, leaf tomatoes, sweet tomatoes, large serpent tomatoes, nipple-shaped tomatoes", and tomatoes of all colors from the brightest red to the deepest yellow.<ref>{{cite book |last=Silvertown |first=J. |year=2017 |title=Vegetables—Variety. Dinner with Darwin: Food, drink, and evolution |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |page=102}}</ref> Sahagún mentioned Aztecs cooking various sauces, some with tomatoes of different sizes, serving them in city markets: "foods sauces, hot sauces; ... with tomatoes, ... sauce of large tomatoes, sauce of ordinary tomatoes, ..."<ref name="Coe-2015">{{cite book |last=Coe |first=Sophie D. |author-link=Sophie Coe |title=America's First Cuisines |publisher=University of Texas Press |location=Austin, Texas |date=2015 |orig-year=1994 |pages=108–118<!--(page 117)--> |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hKVbCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA117 |isbn=978-1477309711}}</ref>

=== Spanish distribution ===

=== Spanish distribution ===