Without Indigenous America, the Irish wouldn’t have potatoes and the Italians wouldn’t have tomatoes. This is why

The tomato in your pasta. The chili in your Thai curry. The taters in your fish and chips. Much of what we think of as ‘traditional’ global cuisine began with Indigenous crops cultivated thousands of years ago in the Americas. Cam Hassard heads to Santa Fe, New Mexico to redraw the culinary map. The post Without Indigenous America, the Irish wouldn’t have potatoes and the Italians wouldn’t have tomatoes. This is why appeared first on Adventure.com.

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