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

[Jay Weigel]

The history of food *is* fascinating. I'm equally fascinated, however, by
the history of languages, having been at one time a linguistics major,

Maybe there are some interesting parallels.....

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
> >>
> >> Really interesting I thought
> >>
> >>
>