[Sca-cooks] pre-Columbian foods

[Terry Decker]

There is a rather extensive webbed text on foodstuffs, New World and Old
World, that were marginalized by the trade between the the Hemispheres.  It
provides a lot of valuable information.  I don't have the URL to hand or I
would provide it.  It is a useful resource.

Bear

> We are thinking foods that were here when the Westerners got to
>land.  She hasn't specified a continent, although we have done South
America
>as it's own dinner theme a few years ago.  So, I suppose it could be either
>what the Spaniards found when they arrived in more southern climes, or what
>the Pilgrims were introduced to when they landed on the northern shores.
>I did a websearch on 'pre-Columbian food'expecting to find lots of trendy
>restaurants sauteeing grasshoppers, but got a big fat nothing> Christianna