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    Sayyid Suleyman al-Rashid ibn Beyazid skrev:

>The "Eurocentric prejudice" regarding food is an attitude I will never,
>ever understand.  The Chinese were eating tomatoes before the Europeans
were.
>So were the arabs.  Peanuts were being grown and eaten in Siam and India
for
>thousands of years.  Bananas were being eaten in Southeast Asia for
thousands
>of years as well.  Hot peppers have been an elemenf of Indian cooking (as
>well as Mongolian, Afghan, and Siamese) for centuries.  Sure sounds like
they
>were period... oh, not European, of course, but period.

Please forgive me for asking, but may I have your documentation please? I'd
very much like to find usage of certain previously-known-as-American foods
in Europe or Asia before, say, 1600.



Phlip

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Philippa Farrour
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Southeastern Ohio

"All things are poisons.  It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a
poison and a remedy." -Paracelsus

"Oats -- a grain which in England sustains the horses, and in
Scotland, the men." -- Johnson

"It was pleasant to me to find that 'oats,' the 'food of horses,' were
so much used as the food of the people in Johnson's own town." --
Boswell

"And where will you find such horses, and such men?" -- Anonymous