Dan Barber’s Quest for Flavor
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The Story of the Dejes
The Europeans just showed up and basically ignored the food that already grew here. In all of these cases the colonizers just imported their own cuisine onto an alien landscape. There's another thing Dan pointed out to us. Here in the US the European settlers simply had it too good. They could use up one area and then move on to the next. We were never forced into the kind of negotiations that the farmers of the Dejes that were forced into. The story of really any cuisine is that when you look at it closely is that these were peasants in all cases whether we're talking about French, Italian or Chinese cuisines.
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