List of Food Origins - America

America

Corn, beans and squash were domesticated in Mesoamerica around 3500 BCE. Potatoes and manioc were domesticated in South America. In what is now the eastern United States, Native Americans domesticated sunflower, sumpweed and goosefoot around 2500 BCE.

Ancient American Crops
Cereals Maize (corn), maygrass, and little barley
Pseudocereals Amaranth, quinoa, erect knotweed, sumpweed, and sunflowers
Pulses Common beans, tepary beans, scarlet runner beans, lima beans, and peanuts
Fiber Cotton, yucca, and agave
Roots and Tubers Jicama, manioc (cassava), potatoes, sweet potatoes, sunchokes, oca, mashua, ulloco, arrowroot, yacon, leren, and groundnuts
Fruits Tomatoes, chili peppers, avocados, cranberries, blueberries, huckleberries, cherimoyas, papayas, pawpaws, passionfruit, pineapples, soursops and strawberries
Melons Squashes
Meat and poultry turkey, bison, muscovy ducks, and guinea pigs
Nuts Peanut, black walnuts, shagbark hickory, pecans and hickory nuts
Other Chocolate, Canna, tobacco, Chicle, rubber, maple syrup, birch syrup and vanilla
Timeline of American Crop Cultivation
Date Crops Location
7000 BCE Maize Mexico
5000 BCE Cotton Mexico
4800 BCE Squash
Chili Peppers
Avocados
Amaranth		 Mexico
4000 BCE Maize
Common Bean		 Mexico
4000 BCE Ground Nut South America
2000 BCE Sunflowers
Beans

Read more about this topic:  List Of Food Origins

Famous quotes containing the word america:

    “America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic—I mean my motion.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)