![]() ![]() ![]() di Giovanni, a former microbiological researcher at Rockefeller University, now teaches science and history at La Scuola New York, an elementary and secondary school on East 96th Street that is owned by the Italian Government. The $45 meal is being served this week at Caffe Bondi, 7 West 20th Street in Manhattan, where she is the food consultant. To prove her point, and to put a somewhat different spin on the hoopla for the upcoming quincentennial of Columbus's voyage, she has devised an eight-course menu of dishes typical of 14th- and 15th-century Italy. ![]() ![]() We also had domesticated animals, which we introduced to the Americas, plus plenty of fruits and vegetables." We already had plenty of grains like wheat, rice, millet, rye and barley, so corn did not have that much impact, except to the poor. "Europe had a much richer variety of food than the Americas. "It could be argued that in the exchange of foods, the newly discovered lands gained more than they gave," said Ms. di Giovanni, a native of Genoa, will acknowledge that the foods brought back from the New World enriched the diets of various countries, but Italy benefited less than others.Īs far as she's concerned (the tomato notwithstanding), Columbus's impact has been greatly exaggerated in his native land. WHEN it comes to Columbus, Luisa di Giovanni, a biologist and historian, is less than sanguine. ![]()
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