"krusty kritter" > wrote in message
...
> Mesoamerican culture thrived on four vegetables, as I recall, maize,
beans,
> squash, and the other one that I disremember at the moment. Mesoamerican
> tribes
> revered the vegetables as the Holy Four, according to anthropological
> material
> I've read...


Chile peppers.


>
> Any other vegetable is probably an import from Europe or Asia, and its
> inclusion couldn't be called "authentic" for the purposes of "authentic"
> Mexican cooking by the "Mexican cooking Police"...


Are you saying pre-Hispanic Mexicans only knew four vegetables? There was
also the tomatillo, avocado, nopal, amaranth, tomato, chayote, sweet
potato...

Peter

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