botanically eggplant and tomatoes are berries.

Yes. Which is one reason why I'm just a tiny bit perturbed that the FDA reordered their recommended food pyramid to separate fruit and vegatable servings into two distict catagories. Should I count my gazpacho for lunch as a serving of vegies, or a serving of fruit?

;-)

Oh, and remembering that tomatoes are close cousins to raspberries makes a recipe like this Tomato soup chocolate cake seem a lot less bizarre.

Guest: TJ in San Diago -- Yay! I wish you much epicurian joy. I'm also reminded that, in medical / food history, the vitamin Thiamin, and its role in preventing beriberi, was discovered by switching the brown rice in chicken feed for white rice, and the chickens developed the disease.

Maybe we'd all be healthier if we deigned to lower ourselves to eating chickenfeed on a regular basis ;-)