SC - New World Foods-rant

[lilinah@earthlink.net]

lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> >Pardon the inexperienced question please but what foods are New WOrld foods
> >
> >The Newbie
> 
> The New World is generally considered to be North and South America.
> New World foods are those that are or were native to those regions
> and unknown in the Old World (Europe, Africa, Asia). None would have
> been known in the Old World until after 1492 :-) and many were not
> rapidly adopted. Most would be too expensive to eat often as imported
> foods (or wouldn't survive the long voyage), so they'd have to be
> grown in a hospitable climates in the Old World, often around the
> Mediterranean...
> 
> These include:

[snip]

> turkey, beaver, raccoon, possum, bison (American buffalo), and other
> animals i'm not sure of - and there must be a whole lot of indigenous
> fish...

Along with the previous discussed beaver, bison is also both New (_Bison
bison_0) and Old World (_Bison bonasus_). Mostly left in eastern Europe
(the remaining herds straddle the Polish/Russian border, in the 8th
century, it could be found all the way to western Europe. While the herd
was brought back from extinction, from centuries of overhunting, by
breeding from zoo stock, it never totally died out, and even then, the
brink of extinction was in the 19th century A little smaller than the NA
cousin, as it's more of a forest dweller than the wide open plains.

Seumas