SC - Corn-Early Modern

[Jenne Heise]

> One thing to remember is that even though settlers in the New World would 
> most likely have integrated corn into there culinary practices very quickly 
> (and m indeed, such was the case), the same cannot be said of Europe or the 
> Mideast which up until W.W.II viewed such plants as animal fodder. 

Ras--  are you sure about this? _6000 years of bread_ makes the opposite
claim, at least for southern Europe: that corn (not green corn, but dried
field corn) got integrated into southern European diet fairly quickly, but
then dietary problems started to crop up, and it was mostly abandoned
except for certain applications... I believe maybe polenta was one of
them.
I'm never quite sure how reliable a source _6000 years_ is, so this could
be absolutely wrong.
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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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