Food: A Cultural Culinary History

Aztecs and the Roots of Mexican Cooking Lecture 16 B efore venturing into the modern era, you will learn about Mexico at the tim ...

Lecture 16: Aztecs and the Roots of Mexican Cooking be of the Aztec, and all of them still form a basic core of Mexican cuisine. ...

 There are also several important root vegetables, including jicama, yuca, malanga, and—probably one of the most important foo ...

Lecture 16: Aztecs and the Roots of Mexican Cooking  One of the more interesting foods eaten in central Mexico is spirulina, a ...

 What else we know about Aztec cuisine is from inference from colonial cooking after. The foods that seem to be almost complet ...

Lecture 16: Aztecs and the Roots of Mexican Cooking  Cochineal was a very important food-coloring and dye plant. It came from ...

Start by soaking a pot of beans overnight. Use any Phaseolus species, such as pinto, navy, kidney, or even black beans; these ar ...

Lecture 17: 1492—Globalization and Fusion Cuisines 1492—Globalization and Fusion Cuisines...................................... ...

 The Portuguese had a king in the early 15th century—King Henry the Navigator—who founded a school for navigation and personal ...

Lecture 17: 1492—Globalization and Fusion Cuisines  On one of these voyages in 1500 under Cabral, heading out into the Atlanti ...

but he was nonetheless the fi rst European to taste corn, tomatoes, chilies and sweet potatoes and to smoke tobacco.  In 1494, ...

Lecture 17: 1492—Globalization and Fusion Cuisines  The Columbian exchange went both ways. For the fi rst time in human histor ...

the cuisine in all of these places. However, the fi rst printed recipe involving chili peppers is from the late 17th century. Th ...

Lecture 17: 1492—Globalization and Fusion Cuisines Chocolate Tasting Exercise When Europeans fi rst encountered chocolate among ...

16 th-Century Manners and Reformation Diets ................................ Lecture 18 I n the 16th century, some major changes ...

Lecture 18: 16 th-Century Manners and Reformation Diets  Another important factor in this increasingly court-dominated society ...

the sale of church offi ces, clerical ignorance, and a general failure of the church to meet the spiritual needs of the people, ...

Lecture 18: 16 th-Century Manners and Reformation Diets faith alone. It was this single idea that hastened the permanent rift in ...

 Calvin’s attitude toward food is equally interesting and quite similar to Stoicism. The Calvinists favored austerity and a ri ...

Lecture 18: 16 th-Century Manners and Reformation Diets Life, although actually discussing sex, Saint Francis tell us how we sho ...