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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Chilies to chocolate. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1992 (OCoLC)663348104 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nelson Foster; Linda S Cordell |
| ISBN: | 0816513015 9780816513017 0816513244 9780816513246 |
| OCLC Number: | 25411150 |
| Description: | xvii, 191 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Europeans' wary encounter with tomatoes, potatoes, and other New World foods / Alan Davidson -- The renaissance of amaranth / Daniel K. Early -- Vanilla : nectar of the gods / Patricia Rain -- Maize : gift from America's first peoples / Walton C. Galinat -- Beans of the Americas / Lawrence Kaplan and Lucille N. Kaplan -- The peripatetic chili pepper : diffusion of the domesticated Capsicums since Columbus / Jean Andrews -- Forgotten roots of the Incas / Noel Vietmeyer -- A brief history and botany of cacao / John A. West -- Quinoa's roundabout journey to world use / John F. McCamant -- Native crops of the Americas : passing novelties or lasting contributions to diversity? / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Appendix : Food plants of American origin. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Nelson Foster & Linda S. Cordell. |
Abstract:
that have worldwide economic importance. Drawing on disciplines as diverse as anthropology, ethnobotany, and agronomy, it focuses on the domestication and use of these plants by native peoples and their dispersion into the fields and kitchens of the Old World: tomatoes to Italy, chili peppers throughout Asia, cacao wherever a sweet tooth craves chocolate. Indeed, potatoes and maize now rank with wheat and rice as the world's principal crops. "The sweetness of corn on the.
cob is sweeter for knowing the long, winding way by which it has come into one's hands," observe Foster and Cordell. Featuring contributions by Gary Nabhan, Alan Davidson, and others, Chilies to Chocolate will increase readers' appreciation of the foods we all enjoy, of the circuitous routes by which they have become part of our diets, and of the vital role that Native Americans have played in this process.
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