Fruit:AgaveAmerican plum Atemoya Avocado Beach plum Black Concord grape Black raspberry Blueberry Buffaloberry Cacao Cactus pear Cape gooseberry Cassabanana Chayote Cherimoya Chokecherries Concorde grape Cranberry Currants and Gooseberries Custard apple Feijoa Granadillas Grapefruit Guanábana Guava Hackberry Huckleberry Mamey sapote Naranjilla Papaya Passion fruit Pawpaw Pepino Persimmons Pin cherry Pineapple Prickly pear cactus Raspberries Serviceberry Silverberry Soapberry Squawberry Moncot:ArrowheadArrowroot Blue Camas Algae:Giant KelpAsteraceae:Jerusalem ArtichokeSunflower Sumac:Sumac |
Vegetables:Bell peppersButternut Catawba grape Ceriman Chayote Chile peppers Corn Green beans Jicama Kidney beans Haricot beans Lima beans Manioc Milkweed Oca Onions Pig weed Pokeweed Potato prairie turnip Pumpkins Ramp Rose hips Rum cherry Saguaro fruit Sapodilla Sassafras Sassaparilla Scarlet runner beans Snap beans Spice bush Spring Beauty Squash Strawberry Sugar apple Sweet potato Tamarillo Tarwi Tepary beans Tomatillo Tomato White sapote Winter squash Wild Mustard Yellow wax beans Prickly pear cactus String beans Yams Zucchini |
Meats:AlligatorsAntelope Bears Beavers Bison Brill Caribou Carp Catfish Clams Cranes Crayfish Deer Ducks Eel Elk Foxes Frogs Grouse Hares Herons Larks Llama Lynxes Martins Mink Moose Muskrats Mussels Otters Oysters Panther Pike Porcupines Prairie chickens Prairie dogs Ptarigans Quail Rabbits Raccoons Rattlesnakes Salamanders Salmon Seals Shad Skunk Smelt Sturgeon Trout Turkey Turtles Walruses Whales Wildcats Wolves |
Grains:CassavaQuinoa Rice (brown) Rice (wild) Sweets:Black birchHoney Maple syrup Spice:VanillaNuts:Black walnutBrazil nut Hickory nut Macadamia nut Pecan Pinon Root:MalangaLegume:PeanutsHopniss Wetland Plants:CattailBulrush Pickerelweed Water Plantain Grasses:Indian RicegrassWild Rice |
For information and descriptions of foods, check out these links:
Foodreference.com: The Food Reference Website at http://www.foodreference.com/index.html
About.com
http://homecooking.about.com/library/index/blazindex.htm
The Food Timeline:
http://www.foodtimeline.org/
There are thousands of books that focus on food history. Here are some links that list many of them:
FoodReferencecom.-Culinary History Books:
http://www.foodreference.com/html/shopbookhistory.html
BestBookBuys:
http://www.bestwebbuys.com/Cooking-History-N_10006384-books.html
Google:
http://books.google.com/books?q=books+on+history+of+foods&source=citation&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=bottom-3results&hl=en
Alice Statler Library:
http://www.ccsf.edu/Library/alice/subjguides/foodhistory.html