[Sca-cooks] period maize/corn

[Harris Mark.S-rsve60]

'Lainie asked:
> So, when corn finally made it's way back to Europe, how did
> they eat it (if they did)- as vegetable, or as grain?

As bread and as polenta. See these files in the FOOD-BREADS-GRAINS
section of the Florilegium:
maize-msg         (37K)  3/28/02    Discovery of maize (Indian corn) in the
                                       Americas and its introduction to Europe.
polenta-msg       (22K) 10/ 1/01    Period polenta. Wheat and maize polenta.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net