Chuck wrote:
:
: Ah, must be a feller who also doesn't eat (or drink) corn, spuds,
: tomatoes, maple syrup, squash, chocolate, coffee, cranberries, turkey,
: venison, pumpkin, jerky, use tobacco, believe in rotating crops,
: irrigation, democracy, public works projects, women's rights, slavery
: or taking scalps. There's the good, the bad and the ugly in every
: culture...careful you don't paint with too broad a brush.

: Anyhow, like cooking on/in/with cedar, they are all aspects,
: characteristics or products of various American Indian cultures
: (North, Central and South American, of course), introduced to the
: Euros..

I don't think the Indians were the first to invent irrigation,
democracy, or public works projects. And I would think the
agricultural societies in Europe would have been rotating crops, although
I'm not utterly positive.

You can also add potatoes as one of the plants original to the Americas.

-- Andy Barss