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Food in the Americas – The History of the New World by Girolamo Benzoni
The marvelous meal of the Indians. Some of the first images of Native Americans in the New World were captured in La Historia del Mondo Nuovo di M. Girolamo Benzoni Milanese, Venetia, 1565. Most of the...
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Golden Apples, Crimson Stew
1534: A Spanish trader is returning to his ship in Seville after another unsuccessful attempt to sell his carefully tended hull full of tomato plants. The actual tomatoes that he’d brought had long...
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Chiles verdes rellenos (picadillo)
Encarnacion Pinedo Recipe taken from Encarnación's Kitchen: Mexican Recipes from Nineteenth-Century California itself a translation of Encarnación Pinedo’s, El cocinero español (San Francisco, 1898),...
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Chile Sauce Recipe found in 1836 cookbook
Chile Sauce I found this recipe for chile sauce inside my well-used copy of The New England Cookbook or Young Housekeeper’s Guide (New Haven, 1836). You’ll notice the recipe calls for two “sweet”...
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Turkey Wheate from John Gerard’s Herbal
The first in a series of posts celebrating Gerard’s 1597 masterpiece The Herball or Generall historie of plantes. Turkey Wheate Gerard’s Herball was one of the first publications to discuss the New...
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Introducing the Tomato: Madde Apples and Love Apples
Madde Apples and Love Apples from Gerard's 1597 Herball Like with corn, the origin of the tomato had already been lost less than 100 years after it was discovered. Gerard cautions against eating the...
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