Historia de las Indias, volume 5

Title

Historia de las Indias, volume 5

Subject

The taste and significance of the peanut in Native American culture

Description

Spanish historian and missionary Bartolome de las Casas records his interactions with the native peoples of the West Indies, including their foods. In this excerpt, he describes specifically the taste and significance of the peanut, or manĂ­.

Creator

Bartolome de las Casas

Source

[no text]

Publisher

M. Ginesta, University of Michigan

Date

1561

Contributor

Emily Grasso

Rights

Public domain

Relation

[no text]

Format

Digitized book

Language

Spanish

Type

Book, historical

Identifier

[no text]

Coverage

[no text]

Original Format

[no text]

Text

[no text]

Files

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Citation

Bartolome de las Casas, “Historia de las Indias, volume 5,” Food origins, accessed March 28, 2024, https://tenochtitlan.omeka.net/items/show/25.