Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Domestication
• 2. New World Staples
• 3. New World Produce
• 4. The Aztecs
• 5. Aztec Ingredients
• 6. Aztec Cooks and Menus
• 7. The Maya and the Explorers
• 8. Diego de Landa
• 9. Solid Maya Breadstuffs
• 10. Maya Flesh Food
• 11. Maya Produce
• 12. The Inca: Animal and Mineral
• 13. The Inca: Vegetable
• 14. The Inca
• 15. The Inca and the Europeans
• 16. The Occupation
• 17. A Final Banquet
• 18. Finale
• Bibliography
• Index

Promotional Information

This pioneering work offers the first detailed description of the cuisines of the Aztecs, the Maya, and the Inca

About the Author

Sophie D. Coe (1933-1994) held a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University. She researched and wrote extensively on the cuisines of native Latin America.

Reviews

"Provides tantalizing snapshots of Native American cuisine and culture, especially at the first intersection with the Europeans... It must not be missed by anyone professing a serious interest in America's cuisines for scientific or gustatory reasons... Appropriate for any interested reader as well as for the academic consumer, this volume presents a wealth of excellent information and is a marvelous read." Nahua Newsletter "Sophie Coe, anthropologist and culinary historian, gives us a cook's tour of the nuclear areas of New World civilization. Her book is a botanically, zoologically, and nutritionally informed synthesis of information on the New World's contribution to the world's inventory of foodstuffs and, most importantly, on how the use of these foodstuffs coalesced in the culinary cultures of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca. It is the first work of its kind on the past civilizations of the New World... This book is essential reading for Americanist anthropologists as well as scholars in a variety of other disciplines, and it constitutes serious pleasure reading for lay readers who are cooks, eaters, and students of foodways." American Anthropologist