Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America (William W. Dunmire) Mochi shami kabab

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Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America (William W. Dunmire) Mochi shami kababWhen the Spanish began colonizing the Americas in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they brought with them the plants and foods of their homelandwheat, melons, grapes, vegetables, and every kind of Mediterranean fruit. Missionaries and colonists introduced these plants to the native peoples of Mexico and the American Southwest, where they became staple crops alongside the corn, beans, and squash that had traditionally sustained the original