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Tomatoes are in the nightshade family, along with peppers and eggplant. Also in the same family are tobacco and deadly nightshade; because tomato is in this particular family Europeans originally thought it to be poisonous.
Tomatoes were domesticated in Mexico, and their name comes from the Aztec term for “plump fruit,” tomatl. more>>>
robert mondavi institute
The Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science allows the UC Davis campus to move two departments—Viticulture and Enology, and Food Science and Technology—under one roof in a new, state-of-the-art facility… home to the Good Life Garden.
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