[Sca-cooks] Ottoman Foodstuffs was Plantains: Period for Old World?

[Terry Decker]

>
> 1. Most New World ingredients didn't enter the Ottoman Empire - which 
> encompassed most of North Africa (including Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt), 
> the Levant (now Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel-Palestine, Iraq, and 
> Anatolia) - or Persia and Central Asia until the ** 18th ** century.
>
> -- 
> Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)

But they quickly adopted, maize, chili peppers, and squash, which leaves me 
wondering why those items and why not others?

Bear