Columbus did a lot
for food fusions despite his many sins. The Americas opened up
world of different marriages on so many levels that could not have been possible on the other continents. Recipes were fused as nationalities mingled and married. It created a brand new cuisine.
Marriages are the first places where fusion cooking occurs. Many Germans and Italians have intermarried in the last 140 years with them recipes.
Italians learned how
to make spaetzle, pasta's Teutonic cousin while Germans experimented with
brajole,
rouladens's or beef roll's relative from across the Alps
.Kids, hybrids, themselves had the joy of one of the most varied
charcuterie's from
landjager and
teawurst to mortadella and prosciutto
.Greeks
, usually thought of being
exclusive, married out and brought such diverse foods as corned beef and Yorkshire pudding into diets, rich with
dolmades and
pastisio. As more and more people came to both North and South America, intermarriage occurred. People from the islands came and fell in love with, not their new cities but the people in them. Rice and beans became a side dish to such American classics as roast turkey and squash. New cuisines
, such as Tex-Mex a combination of Texan and Mexican and Creole, a wide mix of French and Spanish recipes, but also influenced by Amerindians, African, along with Haitian, Italian, German and Irish.
The Columbian Exchange also brought another type of marriage. Ingredients from both sides of the Atlantic were now being combined to create brand new dishes. Italians embraced tomatoes so much that it's hard to think of Southern Italian cuisine without them
.Corn, another New World crop is the catalyst
from turning polenta, that ancient recipe that first used barley
, into pure heaven and a staple of Northern cuisine. Corn also brought that international
snack favorite popcorn all over the globe. The South American tuber, the potato was all important in feeding both Ireland and Germany. It's big in Swabian German recipes like
,kartofelkloesse dumplings made with potatoes and
zinged up with
gingersnps. They're the chief component in potato pancakes or
latke, along with the Irish
boxties and English
tattie fish. The Europeans brought over the domesticated meats such as beef, chicken and pork. Without these Mexican cuisine would not have chicken tacos
, beef
flautas and pork chilis.
. The indigenous North Americans gave the world its' most famous bird, the turkey, used in every holiday dinner
, both in the US and the UK.
Columbus ushered in the Age of Discovery
. He also brought in marriages of diverse culture and fusion cuisines. The Columbian Exchange changed the
world's lives and diets
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