Indigenous Foods
This crop was the main staple food in many Mesoamerican societies.
What is Maize?
This historical event dramatically changed food cultures in the Americas.
What is the colonization of the Americas?
This European cuisine became the global standard for professional cooking.
What is French cuisine?
This group played a major role in shaping Caribbean cooking traditions.
Who are enslaved Africans?
This plant was used to make chocolate drinks in Indigenous cultures.
What is Cacao?
Spanish colonizers believed this wheat-based food was essential to their diet.
What is bread?
Many culinary schools teach techniques from this cuisine as the foundation of cooking.
What is French cuisine?
Caribbean cuisine developed from influences from four continents, including Africa, Europe, Asia, and this region.
What are the Indigenous Americas?
This spicy fruit native to the Americas was widely used in Mesoamerican cooking.
What are Chiles?
This religious institution shaped food rules through fasting and feasts.
What is the Catholic Church?
This style of cooking mixes ingredients or techniques from different culinary traditions.
What is fusion cuisine?
This preserved fish became a common ingredient in Caribbean dishes during colonial times.
What is salt cod?
This Indigenous maize preparation process improves nutrition by cooking maize with lime.
What is nixtamalization?
This medical theory classified foods as hot, cold, moist, or dry.
What is humoral theory?
Janer argues that treating French cuisine as superior reflects this cultural bias favoring Europe.
What is Eurocentrism?
Janer describes Caribbean cooking as flexible and creative, often relying on this cooking approach.
What is improvisation?