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University of Texas Press, 1994 - Cooking - 276 pages
After long weeks of boring, perhaps spoiled sea rations, one of the first things Spaniards sought in the New World undoubtedly was fresh food. Probably they found the local cuisine strange at first, but soon they were sending American plants and animals around the world, eventually enriching the cuisine of many cultures.
This book aims to describe the culinary traditions of the New World, specifically the practices, customs and beliefs of the three major pre-conquest civilizations – the Aztec, Maya and Inca. Coe first ...Read full review
Review: America's First Cuisines
User Review - Shannon - Goodreads
A Mesoamerican archaeologist friend of mine described this book as something her grandmother might have written. :) It's a good read, though, and informative. I liked it.Read full review
