Potatoes, tomatoes, cocoa, coffee, pasta, peppers, tea, nearly every form of cooking spice; all this shit that Europeans claim as culinary cultural heritage are actually ideas that were taken/repurposed from another country/culture/region.
But that’s okay, just dont be a racist bigot about it, is all.
Peppers, tomatoes, and potatoes have basically spread everywhere at this point. Most Asian and African cultures have readily incorporated those into their own food traditions to where it’s hard to imagine how those cuisines were like before crop exchange with the New World.
Before Europeans discovered the sugarcane they only had the natural sweetness of things to make sweet food, the sweetest of which is sugar beet, whose sugar is lot harder to purify than that of sugar cane.
How sweet can cake be without some reasonably pure form of sugar you can add. Did the concept of cake even exist in Europe before that?
Edit: nevermind - I forgot the sweetness of fruit (oops).
Potatoes, tomatoes, cocoa, coffee, pasta, peppers, tea, nearly every form of cooking spice; all this shit that Europeans claim as culinary cultural heritage are actually ideas that were taken/repurposed from another country/culture/region.
But that’s okay, just dont be a racist bigot about it, is all.
Peppers, tomatoes, and potatoes have basically spread everywhere at this point. Most Asian and African cultures have readily incorporated those into their own food traditions to where it’s hard to imagine how those cuisines were like before crop exchange with the New World.
Europeans aren’t native to Europe either.
You could argue that there are no native people or orginal cultures besides the once in east Africa. Everything else evolved form there.
So Europeans ate nothing got it.
Garlic, pickles, and liquor are old world
Sugar!
Before Europeans discovered the sugarcane they only had the natural sweetness of things to make sweet food, the sweetest of which is sugar beet, whose sugar is lot harder to purify than that of sugar cane.
How sweet can cake be without some reasonably pure form of sugar you can add. Did the concept of cake even exist in Europe before that?
Edit: nevermind - I forgot the sweetness of fruit (oops).
Honey?
Yeah, I really missed pretty much the entire domain of sweet things.
Most sugar is made from beets nowadays in Europe.