Precious Cargo: How Foods From the Americas Changed The World

Precious Cargo
tells the fascinating story of how western hemisphere foods conquered
the globe and saved it from not only mass starvation, but culinary as
well. Focusing heavily American foods—specifically the lowly crops that
became commodities, plus one gobbling protein source, the turkey—Dewitt
describes how these foreign and often suspect temptations were
transported around the world, transforming cuisines and the very fabric
of life on the planet.
Organized thematically by foodstuff, Precious Cargo
delves into the botany, zoology and anthropology connected to new world
foods, often uncovering those surprising individuals who were
responsible for their spread and influence, including same traders,
brutish conquerors, a Scottish millionaire obsessed with a single fruit
and a British lord and colonial governor with a passion for peppers, to
name a few.
Precious Cargo is a must read for foodies and historians alike.