>Prior to the Columbian exchange, Italian cuisine had no tomatoes and Europe in general had no potatoes.>Prior to introduction by the Europeans, no Asian cuisine had any peppers into itWhat did they eat before that?
>>217176208Olive "oils" and pasteslop (pastries)
>>217176208Figs and olives, rotten fish soup, meat
>>217176208Wheat, pork, beef, beets, onions, cabbage, cheese, milk, butter etc etc
>>217176208butter, cabbage, and grain
>>217176272yuck
>>217176208Allegedly people in Sichuan had another native pepper for the spiciness that they always looked for.
they used honey as a sweetener
>>217179099I was gonna say I do believe Asians had some peppers
>>217179117Sugar cane came from asia, not america.
>>217176208In ye very olden days I think people ate a lot of bread and porridge slop. Grain was a big part of diet but also some vegetables to make it taste of something.
>>217176208Tomatoes are awful though. Literally the worst thing to add in pasta, pizza and parmas.
>>217176208>Columbian exchangeHe was already dead when Spain did that exchange.Anglomasons named it "Columbus Exchange" in the XVIII century when it should have been named Spain Exchange to the world.The world does not thank us enough of what we did. We also carried cattle to the Americas changing how they worked, eated and moved in all the continent.Even we exchanged the silver from America in China and with this the Ming dinasty could pay their soldiers with silver and with this they had an empire.
Check this channel out, plenty of medieval and ancient italian recipeshttps://youtube.com/@historicalitaliancooking?si=E1VpKnIyO5JAqQ9s
>>217180136>disrasesYjk why those stupid bastards had to include that, while leaving american diseases like siphilis out.
>>217180136Thank you for syphilis
>>217176208We Austronesians brought chickens to Chile long before Columbus. Chickens are native to SEA. I regularly see jungle fowl that can still fly short distances in our jungles.
>>217176208turnips and such
