SC - Re: Old World/New World Foods

[Elise Fleming]

Cariadoc/David mentioned that PPC had articles on New World foods and 
suggested that you look for back issues.  Acanthus Books now carries 
back issues.  I’m lousy for URLs, but Amanda haunts this list and might 
provide it.  They are approximately $7.50 per issue (at least from 
Prospect Books) but worth it.

Also, look for Sophie Coe’s _America’s First Cuisines_, Univ. of Texas 
Press, 1994, ISBN (paperback) 0-292-71159-x.  It contains basically the 
same material (but greatly expanded) that appeared in the PPC articles 
mentioned above.  She details Aztec, Maya, and Inca foods.  What I 
found so interesting was the influence of Old World foods on the New 
World, why some New World foods didn’t catch on right away, and so 
forth.  This might explain why, even though capsicums were _brought_ to 
the Old World in period they were not _used_ .  (That is, they might 
have been cooked and presented to royalty, and noted in a report - from 
which we get historical “proof” - but they weren’t incorporated into 
dishes served at feasts.)

A third source would be the older _The Columbian Exchange, Biological 
and Cultural Consequences of 1492_, by Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., Greenwood 
Press (Connecticut), 1972, ISBN 0-8371-7228-4 for the paperback.  It 
has had at least four printings.  To me, it is a “dryer” read than 
Coe’s book, but I haven’t read it for quite a few years now. 

Alys Katharine, having a second "snow day" following yesterday's free 
day!
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