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"Y'all I'm dying here. Hernández de Toledo would have felt at home with some current  political movements. This is from #OnSavageShores a fantastic book by Caroline Dodds Pennock. Can't wait for it to be published in Spanish, Xmas present for all the family."
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    and so immediately subject to intellectual suspicion. The vast folios of Francisco Hernández de Toledo, personal physician to Philip II, described the tomatillo (often confused with the green tomato) as 'horrible and obscene. Although he acknowledged it could be used to make spicy sauces with chillies - salsa, essentially - he was repulsed by the interior's 'venereal and lascivious similarity to the vulva. 'Tomatoes were also seen as an especially cold and moisť"
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