SC - Corn-Early Modern

[E. Rain]

Greetings from Eden

> Jadwiga wrote:
>
> >The question is, why did
> >people who were introduced to maize as a 'turkish' grain
> decide to eat it,
> >rather than using it as animal fodder?
>
One of the books I was reading back in september (and of course I can't
recal which) suggested that famines in the 1800s were what brought these
foods into popular usage as a foodstuffs. no hard documentation was cited as
I recall, but it's an interesting theory.
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