Fruit:AgaveAmerican plum Atemoya Avocado Beach plum Concord grape Black Cherry Black raspberry Blueberry Buffaloberry Cacao Cactus pear Calabash Cape gooseberry Cassabanana Cayenne pepper Ceriman Chayote Cherimoya Chiltepin pepper Chokecherries Concorde grape Cranberry Currants and Gooseberries Custard apple Feijoa Giant Granadillas Grapefruit Guanábana Guava Habanero pepper Hackberry Huckleberry Jackfruit Jalapeno pepper Mamey sapote Naranjilla Olive Papaya Passion fruit Pawpaw Pepino Persimmons Pimento pepper Pin cherry Pineapple Plaintain Prickly pear cactus Raspberries Serviceberry Silverberry Soapberry Squawberry Vanilla Moncot:ArrowheadArrowroot Blue Camas Algae:Giant KelpAsteraceae:Jerusalem ArtichokeSunflower Sumac:Sumac |
Vegetables:Bell peppersButternut Catawba grape Ceriman Chayote Cholla Corn Green beans Jicama Kidney beans Haricot beans Lima beans Manioc Milkweed Oca Onions Pigweed Pin cherry 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 Sunflower 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 Axolotls Bears Beavers Bison Brill Caribou Carp Catfish Clams Cranes Crayfish Deer Ducks Eel Elk Foxes Frogs Goose Grouse Grasshoppers Guanaco Guinea pig Hares Herons Herring Iguana Larks Llama Lynxes Maguey slug Martins Mink Moose Muskrats Mussels Newts Otters Oysters Panther Pike Porcupines Prairie chickens Prairie dogs Ptarigans Quail Rabbits Raccoons Rattlesnakes Salamanders Salmon Scallop Seals Shad Skunk Smelt Snail Sturgeon Tadpoles Trout Turkey Turtles Walrus Whales Wildcats Wolves |
Grains:AmaranthCassava Pigweed Quinoa Rice (brown) Rice (wild) Sweets:Black birchMelipona Honey Maple syrup Spice:VanillaNuts:
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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