Can you imagine pasta without tomato sauce or Irish stew without potatoes? Before 1492, these vegetables and many others were grown and eaten only in America. European explorers were introduced to these new foods in the New World. Once they brought them home, cooking and eating throughout the world was never the same.

Fascinating text and original illustrations dating back to the 1500s show how New World foods were grown and used by Native Americans, how they got to other parts of the world, and how they are prepared today.