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Austin: University Of Texas Press, 1994. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light soiling to top block. Pages are clean and clear otherwise.). Green cloth boards with silver lettering; silver dj with black lettering and red illustrations; x, 276; bw illustrations and maps. After long weeks of boring, perhaps spoiled sea rations, one of the first things Spaniards sought in the New World undoubtedly was fresh food. Probably they found the local cuisine strange at first, but soon they were sending American plants and animals around the world, eventually enriching the cuisine of many cultures. Drawing on original accounts by Europeans and native Americans, this pioneering work offers the first detailed description of the cuisines of the Aztecs, the Maya, and the Inca. Sophie Coe begins with the basic foodstuffs, including maize, potatoes, beans, peanuts, squash, avocados, tomatoes, chocolate, and chiles, and explores…
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- Title America's First Cuisines
- Author Sophie D. Coe
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
- Date 1994
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780292711556 / 0292711557
- Library of Congress subjects Aztecs - Food, Mayas - Food
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93008836
- Dewey Decimal Code 394.120
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