While Indigenous diets and foodways were deeply impacted by European settlement, Indigenous American foods also changed the world. Below are seven food crops that originated in the Americas. 1. Maize Getty Images Maize corn is dried and then ground into a flour. When the Spanish arrived in the...
Of the staple foods in North America known as the three sisters [21] only squash was of North American origin. Corn and beans probably originated in South America, but their use spread throughout North and South America. As is obvious from Table 1, the wealth of foods in North America ...
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