What 's the influance of american indians in all original cuisine's?

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What 's the influance of american indians in all original cuisine's?

Answer 1

Native Americans of North, Meso, and South America were the first to cultivate 75% of all varities of food grown in the world today.

Some of the more commonly known foods.

Amaranth

Avocado

Beans  

Blackberries

Blueberries

Corn

Chocolate

Chile peppers (including bell peppers)

Chokecherries

Coca

Cranberries

Currants

Elderberries

Gooseberries

Hickory - nuts

Maize

Maple syrup

Mint

Mulberries

Onions

Peanuts

Pecan - nuts

Pineapples

Popcorn

Potatoes

Prickly pears

Prairie turnips

Pumpkins

Quinoa

Raspberries

Sage

Squash

Strawberries

Sunflower seeds

Sweet potato

Tomato

Vanilla

Walnuts

Wild celery

Wild cherries

Wild rice

Turkey

Moose

Chewing Gum - Spruce resin was used to quench thirst, and also as a medicine. South and Central American Indians collected chicle from the Sapodilla tree to make gum.

Rootbeer - Native Americans made Root beer from Sassafras.

Beef Jerky - Native Americans used this method to cure meat for many thousands of years.

Frozen Food - Clarence Birdseye offers quick-frozen foods to the public. He got the idea during fur-trapping expeditions to Labrador in 1912 and 1916, where he saw the natives use freezing to preserve foods.

Freeze-dried food - The Inca of Peru used to preserve potatoes using a freeze-dry process. They put them on mountain terraces, and the solar radiation and extremely cold temperatures created a freeze-dried product that lasted indefinitely.

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Answer 2

There are so many foods that are from American (I mean north and south America) Indians.  A short list of some of the most important:

Tomatoes

Squash

Corn

Potatoes

Chili Peppers

From a tradition standpoint, American Indians from the US provided the basics in smoking meats, giving way to the greatest cuisine on earth, American BBQ.

Answer 3

we eat alot of corn!

Answer 4

I'm British, but like the other girl said, they eat a lot of corn, I guess.