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New World Crops in the Carpathians

Historical period

โš  A DATING ROW. Maize, potatoes, beans of the Phaseolus kind, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins and squash are all American and none of them is an ancient Carpathian food. Maize and beans spread through the Hungarian and Ottoman lands from the 16th and 17th centuries; potatoes only became a staple here in the late 18th and 19th; paprika as a seasoning is a 19th century development. Dishes built on them are recent, however traditional they now feel.

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What is recorded

  • Maize, potatoes, common beans, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins and squash are American crops. Their presence in Carpathian and Pannonian Rusyn cooking dates from the 16th century at the earliest and in most cases from the 18th and 19th, and paprika as a seasoning is a 19th-century development. documented
  • Maize and common beans spread through the Ottoman and Hungarian lands into Carpathian cultivation. documented

Related foodways

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • caused Rusyn Potato Foodways documented

    The potato-based modern kitchen exists because of a post-Columbian crop introduction, not in spite of it.

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