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Taputini, a pre-European cultivar of sweet potato (kūmara) from New Zealand. Sweet potato cultivation in Polynesia as a crop began around 1000 AD in central Polynesia. The plant became a common food across the region, especially in Hawaii, Easter Island and New Zealand, where it became a staple food. By the 17th century in central Polynesia ...
The spread of sweet potatoes. The red lines indicate the likely spread carried out by the Polynesians. The sweet potato, a food crop native to the Americas, was widespread in Polynesia by the time European explorers first reached the Pacific. Sweet potato has been radiocarbon-dated to 1000 CE in the Cook Islands.
Both the potato and the sweet potato originally hail from the Incan region. Maize was also cultivated in the region since 3000 BCE. A major component of the Incan diet that has recently become popular again is quinoa, another native plant. A traditional meat comes from the Peruvian guinea pig, considered a delicacy.
The study indicates that, about 4,500 years ago, pre-Columbians adopted a "polyculture agroforestry subsistence strategy" [11] that intensified with the development of ADE soils some 2,000 years ago. Over a period of several thousand years, crops were introduced, including, first, maize, sweet potato, cereals and tuber crops
A diffusion by human agents has been put forward to explain the pre-Columbian presence in Oceania of several cultivated plant species native to South America, such as the bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) or sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas). Direct archaeological evidence for such pre-Columbian contacts and transport has not emerged.
Pages in category "Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact" The following 86 pages are in this category, out of 86 total. ... Sweet potato cultivation in Polynesia; T ...
The sweet potato became a favorite food item of the French and Spanish settlers, thus beginning a long history of cultivation in Louisiana. [103] Sweet potatoes are recognized as the state vegetable of Alabama, [104] Louisiana, [105] and North Carolina. [106] Sweet potato pie is also a traditional favorite dish in Southern U.S. cuisine.
Food historian Lois Ellen Frank calls potatoes, tomatoes, corn, beans, squash, chili, cacao, and vanilla the "magic eight" ingredients that were found and used only in the Americas before 1492 and were taken via the Columbian Exchange back to the Old World, dramatically transforming the cuisine there. [17] [18] [19] According to Frank, [20]