[Magdalen] The origins of maize: the puzzle of pellagra (EUFIC)

[Grace Cangialosi]

There's a fascinating book that I listened to on tape a few years ago called "Five Grains." (I don't remember the subtitle) It talked about the importance of five grains in the world's history. I know rice, corn and wheat were three...don't remember the other two. It was fascinating. Now I've got to try to look it up...

> On Jul 25, 2016, at 8:06 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The history of food is the most interesting history of all (even more
> interesting than the history of the church). When you think about it, you
> realize that what we call "Italian" is actually a South American/Asian
> fusion. Before the sixteenth century there were no tomatoes, no peppers, no
> polenta. No potato gnocci. Macaroni and eggplant came west with Marco Polo
> . And before that the coastal Italians ate like Greeks and the upland
> Italians apparently subsisted on wheat, barley, carrots, cabbages and
> onions, like the rest of Europe.
> 
> Food tells us where we come from (African foods in the American South),
> where we've been and how & when we've traveled, and who's in charge. Daring
> and magical things have been happening around cooking fires and in kitchens
> since long before history began.
> -M
> 
> 
>> On Sunday, July 24, 2016, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Really interesting I thought
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