[Sca-cooks] Pre-Columbian Foods

[johnna holloway]

Key Limes as I understand them from my readings on citrus fruits
(I did read about things other than oranges.) are representative of the 
limes that developed in the New World after the Conquest. The Spanish 
took citrus trees with them on the early voyages and they rapidly took 
off in the islands and Central America in the later part of the 16th 
century.

Other works that might prove helpful to the topic at hand are:

Todorov, Tzetan. The Conquest of America. 1982, 1984.
Rozin, Elisabeth. Blue Corn and Chocolate. 1992.
Super, John C. Food, Conquest, and Colonization in Sixteenth-Century 
Spanish America. 1988.
Hays, Wilma and R. Vernon. Foods the Indians Gave Us. 1973.
Weatherfors, Jack. Indian Givers. 1988.
Kavasc, Barrie. Native Harvests. 1979.
Sokolov, Raymond. Why We Eat What We Eat. How the encounter between the 
New World and the Old chnaged the way everyone on the planet eats. 1991.

There are dozens more including a number of modern cookbooks that 
feature Native American foods.

See also--
http://www.mnh.si.edu/garden/welcome.html
http://www.mnh.si.edu/garden/emeritus.html
http://www.mnh.si.edu/garden/history/welcome.html
feature details about the Smithsonian's Celebration of the Columbian 
Exchange in the early 1990's. The bibliography is at:
http://www.mnh.si.edu/garden/bibliography.html

Hope this helps.

Johnnae llyn Lewis

ranvaig at columbus.rr.com wrote:
> New World foods include key lime
>
> Ranvaig