[Sca-cooks] New World Foods in the Old World

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> I'm wondering what other people on this list know, not just whether 
> the plant or food item was known, but whether it was eaten with some 
> frequency, and just how eager Europeans were in the 16th century to 
> eat tomatoes, potatoes, maize, etc. - especially those who hadn't 
> actually seen the "natives" eat - and further how eager were they to 
> serve them at European feasts.

Maize appears to have spread relatively rapidly to the point of causing nutritional deficiencies 
in European populations by the early 1700s. I believe 6,000 Years of Bread talks about this.

_Charleston Kedding: A History of Kitchen Gardening_ talks about the difficulties of growing 
tomatoes in England...

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