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Talo Foodways

Taloa

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A flat maize griddle cake, cooked on an iron plate and folded round txistorra or cheese at fairs and festivals. ⚠ MAIZE REACHES THE BASQUE COUNTRY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY and then becomes the bread of the poor, replacing millet and chestnut. Talo is emphatically NOT an ancient pre-Columbian food, whatever its rustic appearance suggests.

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Communities and languages

Languages: Basque

What is recorded

  • Maize arrives in the Basque Country in the seventeenth century and becomes the bread grain of the poor, displacing millet and chestnut. Talo therefore cannot be an ancient pre-Columbian Basque food, however rustic it looks. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to German Foodways possible

    Maize porridge and flatbread appear across Europe wherever maize arrived early; the parallel is structural rather than a borrowing.

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