Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America by William W. Dunmire

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

William W. Dunmire

375 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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...

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