SC - re:eggplant

[Stefan li Rous]

At 1:34 PM -0700 2/9/00, Steven Cowley wrote:
>New world foods are any food item that were taken back to europe from the
>Americas by the early explorers.  They include, but are not limited to,
>tomatoes, potatoes, corn, turkey etc.  This does not include any 
>modern foods or
>hybreds that have been developed in the past couple of centuries.

Other important ones are:

tomatoes, capsicum peppers (chili, cayenne, bell peppers, etc.), 
chocolate, vanilla, allspice, peanuts, manioc, all of the 
squash/pumpkin group (Cucurbita pepo, C. moschata, C. maxima) 
(although there are old world edible gourds).

Note also that what Americans call "corn" is what English call 
"maize," and is new world. Lots of other things that English call 
"corn," such as wheat and barley, are old world.

David/Cariadoc
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