In article >, Frogleg
> wrote:
> On 10 May 2004 11:14:04 GMT, (ASmith1946) wrote:
> >
> >It seems to me that we have several interesting threads within this
> >discussion.
>
> Anyone care to bring polenta to the boil? Another New World ingredient
> that's "typically Italian."
As an Irishman, constructed almost entirely from potato, I accept this.
But I think we have to be cautious. The past six hundred odd years and
more have consisted of frantic shipping of food crops from one place to
another. Fifty years after a food crop has started being grown in a
country it seems like part of the landscape. Think of all those
tropical staples (by which I mean energy-rich foods like potatoes, rice
and wheat that form a lot of the basic fuel) such as breadfruit et al
that were shunted around.
None of the staples I was brought up on - wheat, potatoes, rice - were
native to Ireland, but they seem to be to most of the people there.
Lazarus
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