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xvi, 302 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Some food historians say that 1491 to 1493 are the years the world began in terms of food, that is. Prior to 1492, eight plants -- corn, beans, squash, chile, tomato, potato, vanilla, and cacao -- existed only in the Americans. Italy didn't have the tomato; Ireland didn't have the potato, nor Russia the vodka distilled from it; and there were no chiles in South Asia. When these ingredients crossed the ocean, they drastically transformed the way the...
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