Diffusion of MesoAmerican Food Complex to Southeastern Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23713597 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean Andrews (0000-0002-1442-9911, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 1-11 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315263113-1 |
| OpenAlex | W4249956565 |
| ISBN | 9781315263113 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The Columbian quincentennial celebration has brought an intensified interest in the related diffusion of ideas, adaptive strategies, material culture, and domesticated plants of the New World. In 1542 the first European illustrations of peppers were published in a German herbal. Such books listed plants and their medical properties and were written for the most part by medical doctors. Columbus left a recommendation that people who were to remain on Española collect as much of the local capsicum pepper as possible. Few Spanish trading ships actually came to the Antilles in the crucial early years, and in the first half of the sixteenth century exchange between Seville and the New World was very limited. The herbalist John Gerard described the capsicums in England and called them “ginnie pepper.” A Portuguese official in India from 1500 to 1516 reported that an abundance of milho grosso had been exported from Gujarat.
Archaeology · Diffusion · Geography · Physics · Thermodynamics · Culinary Culture and Tourism
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |