You Get Big Thighs When You Eat Fries

Hello world! It's Mikayla Nation. I am here to tell you about the most amazing experience I had the other day. I went to Marlow's Tavern and had the best French fries I've ever had. French fries are my favorite food, so I highly enjoyed them. The fries were so nice and crunchy. They did not compare to the low quality fries of McDonald's. These fries looked different than your ordinary, skinny, greasy fries. They were skinny, non-greasy, and were lightly drizzled in truffle oil and parmesan cheese which gave them an expensive quality. As long as I've been a food critic, I've never had fries as good as these. I asked the waitress how they make them. They said they hand cut them every morning and fry them to order. She said they do not put the fries in batter because it takes away the natural essence of the potato. I would highly recommend these fries to other food critics.

I found out that the potato was a part of the Columbian Exchange. The potato was a starch brought from the Old World to the New World. Along with potatoes, cheese was also brought to the New World by people from the Old World because they had cows. Oils were traded from the New World to the Old World. Oil was originally extracted from sunflower seeds.

I will tell you that I do recommend checking out Marlow's Tavern for their truffle oil and parmesan French fries.

-Mikayla ♥

My Trip to Los Rancheros- Josh Nooromnid

My Trip to Los Rancheros

I walked into Los Rancheros and ordered a Beef Enchilada with a side of rice, beans and a three tacos. As I sat there waiting for what seemed to be like a couple seconds, I thought about how all the things I was ordering were involved in the Columbian Exchange. The beef, which obviously came from a cow, went from the old world to the new world. Before the new world was discovered, not many large animals were in the continent of North America. Wheat, which made the taco shells and the bread for the enchilada went from new world to the old world.There is also maize in the taco shell which come new from old.The rice in the enchilada came from the old world to the new world, the rice originated in China then spread across Europe (the old world). The lettuce, tomato in the taco, and the spicy peppers in the mole sauce went from new to old.

 

Once my food I enjoyed the food very much the splendid taste mixed together and all the different vegetables made great dish that I thoroughly enjoyed i hope that you also enjoy this dish, I recommend that you should try it.


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Thanks

JOSH NOOROMID

Mmmm....Cardboard.

Nicholas Wargo: Grape-Nuts?

Ever since wrestling season started all I have been eating for breakfast is Grape-nuts, this name may be misleading. It doesn't actually contain any fruits or nuts; this excuse for a cereal contains Whole Grain Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Isolated Soy Protein, Salt, Whole Grain Barley Flour, Malt Extract, Dried Yeast. All of these grains came from the old world to the new. This "cereal" should never be consumed by any normal human; eating this is like chewing on little cardboard flavored rocks. When you eat Grape-nuts you're really just attempting to chew them but you always end up swallowing them whole. This is a rather an unpleasant daily experience, to all you people out there trying to maintain a healthy body don't fall for the same trick that they played on me, click here now! *Viewer Discretion is advised*

Szabo's Dumpster Dive

 

(Icecream Sunday: Milk, Sugar, Vanilla, Banana, Peanuts, Cacao)

 

    Today I had an exciting day of riffling through the dumpsters in the back of a strip mall for my next meal.  I find the flavors to be much richer and the textures more interesting.  Today, I was knee deep in the freezing dumpster outside of an icecream shop when I found a perfect half-eaten banana split in an old shoe.  The perfect meal to hold me over until my date with dead deer next to my cardboard box.

 

    As I was pondering what life choices I made that got me to this despair, I remembered the one class that started it all.  AP World history with Mr. Benschine.  Ever since the Columbian Exchange extra credit project, my grades just tanked.  Because I couldn't answer where Cacao came from, I never got into college.  Now before every meal I try to figure out what my measly entree is made of, and where it came from.

 

    The Ice Cream itself is made from milk, sugar, and vanilla.  The sugar derives from the sugar cane and the milk comes from cows, both of which are from the old world. The vanilla, however, comes from the new world!  How riveting.  The bananas were were also from the old world, but these bananas looked like they came from the expired section of the abandoned produce store that I'm currently living behind.  The nuts on top may be peanuts, which come from the new world, or  may be ants that crawled into the icecream, died and then crystalized.  Finally that dreaded chocolate sauce.  Chocolate... CACAO!!!  The same accursed food that led me to become the vagrant I am today.  But I'm MUCH more intelligent now.  The cacao is from .  .  . THE OLD WORLD!!!... No wait... definitely the new world... nevermind.

 

 

Until the next time I can sneak into this families home and "borrow" their computer,

I Remain,

Abi Szabo

(Former APWH Student)

 

 

 

when legends get hungry by thomas thomas

When Legends Get Hungry…

A short story by Thomas Thomas

                It was a dark night in a suburb that knows how to keep its secrets, and as the icy northern winds of Marin shook the trees, and the howls of wolves and shrieks of wild raptors cut through the night, I sat alone in my basement, painting down a massive pile of unpainted Space Marines, when I realized I had not had dinner yet, and was desperately hungry. I wandered through the deserted streets and found a single, forlorn, hole-in-the-wall resteraunt at the edge of the market square. After a quick debate, I took the steak'n bacon combo over the velociraptor breast. The steak was beef, like from cows, which are rare this far north, with only a few in the south, as they had come from the Old World to the New World, and were not native. The crispy boar bacon was a different story. Pigs had also come from the old  world to the new, but in such great numbers that prices dropped and it became cheaper to set them free than try to sell them. The wild boar population boomed, and became a staple for the north where nothing lived but mammoths, sandworms, and raptors.

                Despite the general deliciousness of these two entrees, I found my meal  lacking in grain, or in anything non-protein,  so I summoned a bandit technical from the catch-a-ride and head up to the northern military outpost. It was a 3 hour drive there and back, but only if you stay on the roads and under the speed limit, which would be more enticing if the roads weren't dirt and covered with snow. At the outpost I nabbed some quinoa from the farm and chocolate from a drunk leutenant's backpack, and headed home.

                 It turned out that quinoa tastes awful, which explains why the Spanish banned its cultivation as soon as they found it in the Andes. That, and it was considered "Indian food" and was present in many Inca religious ceremonies. Everything else was delicious! I could taste the New World cacoa and Old World, cow-based, milk in every bite. And that is how legends eat.

The Columbian Exchange Food Blog - Greek Salad

Claire Akins

 

Today I visited a Greek restaurant and had the oppurtunity to try Greek salad. Many of the ingredients in Greek salad were traded in the Columbian Exchange.

 

One of the main ingredients in Greek salad is tomatoes. In the Columbian Exchange, tomatoes were exchanged from the New World to the Old world. This had an enormous impact on Europe because today, tomatoes are used in a variety of dishes in many European countries. Peppers are also an important ingredient that were traded in the Columbian Exchange. Peppers originated in the Americas and were exchanged in the Columbian Exchange with The Old World. Feta cheese and olives are also part of this salad. Cattle were exchanged from the Old World to the New World and were useful forproducing milk to make cheese. Olives were also exchanged and given to the New World.

 

Greek salad is a great way to experience the culture and products involved in the Columbian Exchange. The salad that I ate at the restaurant tasted horrendous and I'm pretty sure the cheese was about three weeks past its experation date, but I least I experienced some of the products of the Columbian Exchange.. even if they tasted god awful.

Apple Pie and Such

 

Apple Pie and Such

            I love apple pie. It is so good. It is sweet, delicious, and tastes like apples (or sometimes pie). The ingredients in an apple pie are apples, sugar, butter, and flour. So today I had a hankering for apple pie. I smelled one and the smell levitated me to it like in the cartoons. But instead of being denied the pie like in the cartoons I just took the pie and ate it whole. Then I ran away before the owner of the house could call nine. It was awesome. I forgot where I was going with this. Anyway, apple pie is made up of many ingredients, I think. Ingredients like what I listed in the second sentence of this thing. So that got me thinking "Hey do the ingredients I eat originate in the Americas or Afro-Eurasia and how do they relate to the Columbian Exchange?" Because that's the kind of thoughts that normal people have in their free time.

            Ok so let's start with apples. Those are those round things that are in the store; I'm sure you've seen them. So they originated in the Old World and were brought to the Americas by Europeans probably. Apples are resilient to most climates and are now grown in the Americas as well. Next comes sugar. Sugar had been cultivated for thousands of years in Polynesia and the rest of Afro-Eurasia (Old World). When Europeans found how well sugar grows in the New World, the markets of the Old World were greatly upset.

            Butter, surprisingly, comes from milk, which even more surprisingly comes from these big things called cows. Considering cows came from the Old World, it stands to reason that butter also did. Cows are now found on farms in the Americas and have become a staple product there. Finally, flour, which is made from grains. Grains come from the Old World and are grown everywhere now.

Alex Zaytsev