I wrote:

>> Caveman Grog was probably not eating too many
>> tomatoes either.  Using a stone to grind olives seems more paleo to me.
>
Wally responded:

>Huh? Why would you assume tomatoes were not eaten and
>olives were ground? Are tomatoes "new"? And if
>tomatoes were used (eaten), who wouldn't notice that
>squeezing them produces a "juice" of sorts?

My copy of Neanderthin is out on loan (it travels more than a library book),
but I believe that Ray considers tomatoes a "new world" food and, therefore,
inappropriate on a paleo diet.  If my memory of American history serves,
early Europeans who came to America considered the wild tomato they found to
be poison; it took a period of farming for the tomato to become edible.

Kath