What would Italian cooking be without the tomato? How would Irish history have been different without the potato? What would the Swiss have done without chocolate? These and such products as tobacco, corn, cassava, and most species of bean were unknown in Europe before the voyages of Columbus.
He led four expeditions to the New World, but never accomplished his original goal: to find a western ocean route to Asia. Instead, Christopher Columbus ushered in a new era in world history by opening up the Americas to exploration, and brought these exotic items from the Americas to Europe and Africa, where they eventually revolutionized eating habits.
This week a look at how Columbus' historic voyages changed the world's menu.
TTFN, Fred.
Quote of the week: "There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." - Carl Gustav Jung (a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology known as Jungian psychology, 1875 - 1961)
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Columbus Day
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