COLOMBIAN EXCHANGE, EAT THESE WORDS WILLIAM STJOHN COLOMBIAN EXCHANGE, EAT THESE WORDS WILLIAM STJOHN

THE COLOMBIAN EXCHANGE: THE TURKEY

Of all the foods that the New World gave to the Old World as part of what we call The Colombian Exchange—maize, the potato and tomato, cacao, many squashes and beans, to name but a few—none were so readily accepted by Europe and lands beyond as that ur-American fowl, the turkey, about which we think thankfully at least once a year. . . .

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