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[1manband]

Malignant euro-centrism on display.

No, I would say it is American-centrism on display on your part.

In Europe, the term "corn" means ANY cereal grain. Not the sweet yellow stuff that the word means in the USA. They call that "maize". Their use of the term corn long pre-dates the "discovery" of the yellow stuff by Europeans, so it was in use during the Middle Ages.

So, in the dark ages in Europe, "corn" would have been any grain, such as barley, oats or rye, all of which were the most common foods in Europe during that period.

The article and the author, were almost certainly correct.

[janice shell]

People tend to forget about that. Corn, potatoes, and of course tomatoes are New World foods. Peppers, too, but oddly enough, not eggplants.

We owe an enormous debt to Columbus. Food must have been pretty boring in the Eastern Hemisphere, Asia, and Australia before the 16th century.

And a quick read of Apicius will bear that out.