Why We Eat What We Eat : How Columbus Changed the Way the World Eats Paperback - 1993
by Raymond Sokolov
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Sokolov says that Columbus greatly influenced our eating habits when such New World delights as tomatoes, chocolate, green beans, chili peppers, and maize were introduced into cuisine throughout the world and when the delicacies of the Old World found their way into the cooking pots of America. Sokolov is the Leisure & Arts Editor of The Wall Street Journal.
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- Title Why We Eat What We Eat : How Columbus Changed the Way the World Eats
- Author Raymond Sokolov
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Touchstone, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1993
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0671797913I2N00
- ISBN 9780671797911 / 0671797913
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.82 x 5.46 x 0.66 in (22.40 x 13.87 x 1.68 cm)
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- Cultural Region: African
- Dewey Decimal Code 641.013
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COLUMBUS may be history's foremost example of a man who did great things without knowing what they were, but posterity has honored even his most spectacular blunders.