[Aztlan] 10 Maya foods that changed the world's eating habits

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Nick Hopkins<nickhopkins at live.com> wrote:
>
> Undue credit to the "Maya."  Note that not a single food name is Maya, most are from Nahuatl (a couple of Tainos), and some are not cultivated by the Maya (e.g., vanilla).  And the Maya can't really be given credit for domesticating all those plants, maybe none of them.  Looks to me like they're using "Maya" just for its drawing power and avoiding the more proper "Mesoamerica".  Cheap merchandising!
>

Those aren't the only errors.  In the first paragraph, we read that
the Mayans were "creating books centuries before anything comparable
appeared in Europe," and that they "created a 365-day solar calendar
that varies by less than 2 seconds from the one we use today."

Metta,
Ivan
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