Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America

by William W. Dunmire

Book Overview

When the Spanish began colonizing the Americas in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they brought with them the plants and foods of their homeland--wheat, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292705646
• ISBN13: 9780292705647
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.0"