Brian Minter: Tomatoes are making up for lost time

The present-day popularity of tomatoes is quite a success story because, according to the U.S. National Garden Bureau, tomatoes suffered from bad PR for 300 years.
Native to the Andean Mountains of South America, an area that, today, overlaps Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile, tomatoes may have been eaten by the local Indigenous peoples, but no archaeological evidence indicates that they were cultivated. It seems, however, that animals enjoyed these native fruits because historians speculate that