Ethnobotanist Nat Bletter on giving tomato leaves a swerve

This came through on the Society for Economic Botany’s mailing list and is an interesting look at the wisdom, or not, of eating tomato leaves. 

Also for me it was more generally interesting from the perspective of advice that should be given where info isn’t clear (how toxic are tomato leaves and has it all been a bit exaggerated) and what if the the situation changes (different environments likely to produce different concentrations of various compounds).  

The McGee (he of On Food and Cooking / Lore of the Kitchen) article referred to in Nat’s is also interesting – he’s been investigating tomato leaves in cuisine, as have other chef scientists.

I’m probably not going to eat too many tomato leaves myself though….  

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My attempt to stave off the impending explosion of tomato leaf eaters

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