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11 08, 2017

American food history – tacos to… tacos!

By |2018-04-24T09:45:59-07:00August 11th, 2017|Food, North America|Comments Off on American food history – tacos to… tacos!

People eating in Virginia, about 1550 AD (from the British Museum) Native American food In 1500 AD, most of the people living in North America, like the Pueblo, the Cherokee, the Iroquois, and the Mississippians, [...]

23 06, 2017

Where are sweet potatoes from? Central America

By |2018-04-19T15:42:19-07:00June 23rd, 2017|Central America, Food|Comments Off on Where are sweet potatoes from? Central America

Sweet potatoes People in both North America and South America ate lots of sweet potatoes. That's because sweet potatoes are very good for you. They have lots of calcium, potassium, [...]

18 05, 2017

Eto – African food

By |2019-05-31T15:42:09-07:00May 18th, 2017|History|Comments Off on Eto – African food

Eto: yams before they are cooked What is Eto made of? Eto is a kind of food that people ate in West Africa. You cooked yams until they were soft, [...]

18 05, 2017

African Food – History – Cooking and eating in early Africa

By |2019-09-10T06:43:56-07:00May 18th, 2017|Africa|30 Comments

Early African food: Wheat bread African food before farming Before people started farming, African hunters and gatherers ate mainly fruit (especially figs), with some meat and fish and seafood and [...]

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