***This is NOT an exhaustive list!
Fruit:AgaveAmerican plum Atemoya Avocado Beach plum Concord grape Black Cherry Black raspberry Blueberry Buffaloberry Cacao Cactus pear Calabash Cape gooseberry Cassabanana Cayenne pepper Ceriman Chayote Cherimoya Chiltepin pepper Chokecherries Concorde grape Cranberry Currants and Gooseberries Custard apple Feijoa Giant Granadillas Guanábana Guava Habanero pepper Hackberry Huckleberry Jalapeno pepper Mamey sapote Naranjilla Papaya Passion fruit Pawpaw Pepino Persimmons Pimento pepper Pin cherry Pineapple Prickly pear cactus Raspberries Serviceberry Silverberry Soapberry Squawberry Vanilla Moncot:ArrowheadArrowroot Blue Camas Algae:Giant Kelpspirulina Asteraceae:Jerusalem ArtichokeSunflower Sumac:Sumac |
Vegetables:Bell peppers
LOOK::: Foods of the Great Lakes Region: see Decolonizing Diet Project's master list |
Meats:AlligatorsAntelope Axolotls Bears Beavers Bison Brill Caribou Carp Catfish Clams Cranes Crayfish Deer Ducks Eel Elk Foxes Frogs Goose Grouse Grasshoppers Guanaco Guinea pig Hares Herons Herring Iguana Larks Llama Lynxes Maguey slug Martins Mink Moose Muskrats Mussels Newts Otters Oysters Panther Pike Porcupines Prairie chickens Prairie dogs Ptarigans Quail Rabbits Raccoons Rattlesnakes Salamanders Salmon Scallop Seals Shad Skunk Smelt Snail Sturgeon Tadpoles Trout Turkey Turtles Walrus Whales Wildcats Wolves |
Grains:AmaranthCassava Pigweed Quinoa Rice (brown) Rice (wild) Sweets:Black birchMelipona Honey Maple syrup Spice:achioteavocado leaf epazote hoja santa popcorn flower Vanilla Nuts:
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For information and descriptions of foods, check out these links:
Foodreference.com: The Food Reference Website at http://www.foodreference.com/index.html
The Food Timeline:
http://www.foodtimeline.org/
There are thousands of books that focus on food history. Here are some links that list many of them:
FoodReferencecom.-Culinary History Books:
http://www.foodreference.com/html/shopbookhistory.html
Google:
http://books.google.com/books?q=books+on+history+of+foods&source=citation&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=bottom-3results&hl=en