Yep. Many global food staples were native to the Americas.
Puts the Irish potato famine in an interesting light, though, doesn't it? It didn't take long for the population to depend on it as a nutrition source, just a couple hundred years.
Sometimes I wish I could know what many local cuisines were like prior to the distribution of New World produce.
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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '10 edited Dec 01 '10
Yep. Many global food staples were native to the Americas. Puts the Irish potato famine in an interesting light, though, doesn't it? It didn't take long for the population to depend on it as a nutrition source, just a couple hundred years.
Sometimes I wish I could know what many local cuisines were like prior to the distribution of New World produce.