friedmacguffins wrote:
In my reading, the pepino dulce is shown in pre-Columbian art, but not the tomato.
There was no chocolate candy, as we know it, and lots of Mexican food is really Spanish.
I am finding different examples of plants, which were not widely cultivated, until Europeans took an interest, or, the medicinal or religious use of a thing changed, generationally, because of verbal traditions.
The West has discovered things, without being handheld, by some native guide, but has also collapsed, many times.
All of the same acts of savagery can be committed by white people, some of which say that cannibalism is ok, during times of hardship, or on morally-relative grounds. Cannibalism has been ok, where there is no sumptuary law or dietary prohibition, against such.
No idea what your point is.
Most folks cant imagine the Plains Indians (Dakota, Apache, Comanche, etc) with out horses, but they only had horses after they got them from Europeans sometime after 1500 AD. Likewise the Irish didnt have potatoes, and the Italians didnt have tomatoes, until after Columbus either ( Jews didnt have potato latkas since Old Testament times either). Both Old and New Worlds were transformed by the European discovery of America. Am not taking "sides" between the old and new worlds like you seem to be doing for some perverse reason.
07 May 2017, 1:02 pm
