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I.M.Summers
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| The tomato was once considered a scandalous food and was widely believed to have considerable power as an aphrodisiac. Alternatively know as the love apple, the tomato was actually prohibited from Puritan England in the seventeenth century, and only came back into fashion some two hundred years later. |
| Practice still today in some parts of the world, placing a big red tomato on the windowsill is used to ward off evil spirits, and if placed over a hearth a tomato will promote the prosperity of the house hold. |
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