All entries for Monday 04 August 2008
August 04, 2008
Chili, Chocolate, and Chips: Foods that Originate from the New World
Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/audio/?podcastItem=rebecca-earle.mp3
Dr. Rebecca Earle from the Department of Comparative American Studies talks about the importance of diet in creating the Indian and Spanish identities in the early modern era, and how the foods that the Spanish once avoided in the New World are now ingrained in many cultures.