[Sca-cooks] food question

[Karyn Schmidt]

> --- 'bella <ldybella at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > the salad.....<snip>
> > made me wonder if there was, somewhere a list of  what
are
> > considered 'new world foods'

Philippa Alderton <phlip_u at yahoo.com> answered:
> It's not a mqatter of "considering", it's a matter of  the
species only being discovered on the side of the Atlantic
Ocean containing the American continents.
>
> . For starters, there are:
> Most beans (not including peas, favas, chickpeas, or
lentils)
> Tomatoes
> Peppers, bell and chiles, but not peppercorns
> Corn (maize)
> Chocolate
> Vanilla
> Turkey
> Maple syrup trees (sugar maples)
> Peanuts
> Potatoes, both sweet and white
> American bison (buffalo)
> Guinea pigs
> All of the bell and chile peppers are new world.
> Cukes, I believe, are Old World.

To that I add part of my list:
NEW WORLD FOODS
Allspice (Pimenta officinalis, Jamaican pepper) <Trager 53>
Avocadoes <Trager 53>
Beans - Kidney bean, snap beans pinto, navy, lima, Great
Northern are New World beans.  <NGME Grolier Encyclopedia>
<Trager 53>
Brazil nuts <Trager 53>
Butternuts <Trager 53>
Cashews <Trager 53>
Chocolate <Trager 53>
Coffee <Scully 66>
Guinea fowl <Trager 53>
Kiwi <Scully 66>
Maize <Gies CFW 284> <Trager 53>
Peanuts <Trager 53> (Native to South America.  Being raised
in Virginia when colonists arrived 17 cent.  Grown in Africa
(nguba => goober) by 18-19 cent.
Peppers (red and green) (Capiscums) including paprika
<Trager 53>
Pineapples <Trager 53> (called by Columbus because it looked
like a big pine cone). <Trager 56>
Papaya <Trager 53>
Pimento <Trager 53>
Pumpkins <Trager 53>
Squashes <Trager 53>  (winter squash)
Sunflower <Lehner 48>
Tapioca
Tomatoes <Trager 53>
Turtle meat <Trager 53>
Vanilla native to American tropics. <NGME> <Trager 53>
Black walnuts <Trager 53>
Banana, rice and citrus fruits were imported to Americas
from Asia.  Yams, cowpeas, coconuts, coffee and breadfruit
were imported to Americas from Africa.

I wish I had the reference for tapioca.  It sure has fans on
the list.
Geis, Frances & Joseph.  Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel:
Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages.  NY,
HarperPerennial, 1994.  [k T15.G32c]
Lehner, Ernst and Johanna.  Folklore and symbolism of
flowers, plants, and trees.  NY, Tudor, 1960.  [WPL 581.508
L523]
Scully, Terence.  The art of cookery in the middle ages.
Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 1995.  [SheboyganPL 641.594
Scu47a]
Trager, James.  The Enriched, Fortified, Concetrated
Country-Fresh, Lip-Smacking, Finger-Licking, International,
Unexpurgated Foodbook.  NY, Grossman, 1970. [WPL 641.3 T765]

Trager may not be the most reliable source, but it was the
first one on the list.  I didn't bother to add notes when I
found the items mentioned in other books.

Kudrun þe Pilegrim -- returning to adding a panel to the
Bayeux "Tapestry"