[Sca-cooks] New World Foods

[Louise Smithson]

Urtatim, 
Nice class, about my only major bug bear is that the spread of new world foods across Europe was sporadic.  Like many things in our area of research, sweeping generalizations can be tricky and misleading.  There is strong evidence that by the time Scappi wrote his book (1570) there was already cultivation and culinary use of: New World Squash, Maize, Turkey, and Modern beans (Phaseolus varieties).  My paper on this is still available in the florilegium under New World Foods in Old World Menus.  Your class though is a good overview of the subject. 
Helewyse


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