“ Jeffery Steingarten’s Vogue essay Playing Ketchup, collected in The Man Who Ate Everything, describes how he discovered and cooked some of the earliest recipes for tomato ketchup and showed in a careful scientific test that they were quite delicious. ”
—Dan Jurafsky, in a, frankly, fascinating essay on where tomato ketchup came from*, how it developed, and why the “tomato” in the name isn’t redundant.
* Hint: Who invented basically everything?
(via @thatwhichmatter)
