On Food and Cooking

3 .  Pumpkin

4 .  Squashes

5 .  Tomato

6 .  Kidney bean

7 .  Lima   bean

8 .  Capsicum   pepper

9 .  Avocado

Fruits

1 .  Pineapple

Herbs   and Spices

1 .  Allspice

2 .  Chillis

3 .  Vanilla

The 17th and 18th centuries were a time of
assimilating the new foods and advancing the
art of cooking them. Cultivation and breeding
received new attention; Louis XIV’s orchards
and plantings at Versailles were legendary.
And cooks took a greater interest in