Food from the Americas

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Title

Food from the Americas

Subject

Transportation of Native American food complexes and post-colonial cuisine to international cuisines from European discovery, colonization, and onward.

Description

When the first Europeans encountered the native inhabitants of the Americas for the first time, trade lines were established to export food from the Americas and into European markets, altering the cuisine of both New and Old World hemispheres forever.
This Collection covers the exportation of foods native (in cultivation and/or origination) to the Americas, whether the cuisine comes from Native American civilizations, tribes, or cultures formed from colonized territories.

Creator

vivlee

Language

English

Type

Food history and cultural exchange

Collection Items

How Well The Corn Prospered.
The importation of maize into international diets began with the first encounters with the native inhabitants of the Pre-Columbian Americas by European settlers and explorers starting as early as the 15th century.
Maize can trace its origins to…

Tamale lunch at the National Museum of the American Indian
The origin of the tamale is contested between historians as many have different ideas as to where it was first conceived in the Americas. Commonly thought, the tamale came from Mexican migrants to the United States in the early 20th century,…

Nigella Lawson's cornbread recipe
Cornbread is a traditional food of various Amerindian tribes of the southeast United States that was adopted into Euro-American and enslaved cuisine by as the 18th century. As the 1700s progressed, more and more grain was exported from the Thirteen…

"The King Everywhere"
Potatoes are a food native to South America that made its way to Europe through the exportation of Native American food complexes from 15th century exploration and colonization.
King Frederick sought to modernize the kingdom of Prussia during his…

Norwegian Taco
Nordic adaptations of traditional Mexican cuisine developed through centuries of diffusion between foods native to the Americas from Native American diets and European ingredients.

Areas of Great Lakes Tribes' Three Sisters crops
Three Sisters agriculture, the planting of corn, beans, and squash, was the primary form of agriculture utilized to feed Native American tribes and civilizations from as far south as the Mayans to as north as the Great Lakes region. The map depicts…

Cured and smoked jowl for two at Pitt Cue.
American barbecue can trace its origins to the cooking techniques of Native Americans, notably the tribes inhabiting the Caribbean, and further utilized and developed by the enslaved Africans and their descendants throughout the centuries.
Barbecue…

Cocoa Aztec Sculpture
Native to Mexico, Central America, and South America, cocoa beans have had a long standing history in the cuisine and culture of Mesoamerican cultures, notably the Olmecs, Mayan, and Aztecs.
The cocoa bean was the subject of plenty of mythology in…

American pulled pork in Hatos Bar in Japan
Like London in the United Kingdom, there is more desire in Tokyo, Japan for more authentic American cuisine. Going into the 21st century, while Japan is home to an abundance of burger shops and retro themed diners, there is the beginning of demands…

Coca Cola advertisement
Coca Cola was initially created to be a substitute for alcohol in the late 19th century by former Confederate officer, John Styth Pemberton. The soft drink is known for infamously containing small amounts of cocaine in its formula before 1903 by the…
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