Holiday season is the time of year that brings together family and holiday foods. The best part of the season’s meal is not necessarily the dinner, but the endless amounts of sweets. Pies are the more popular desserts that are eaten after traditional holiday meals. One of the popular choices of pie, is pecan. Pecan pies are made primarily with corn syrup and pecan nuts. It is claimed that the pie had originated in the early 1800s near Louisiana, with no acknowledgments of its trace before 1886 (Wikipedia, 2013). The cake itself has been kept alive by American Literature and televisions through the association of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other special occasions. The actual pecans within the pie however, have been around a lot longer than …show more content…
The nuts are rounded and can be grouped together at up to 100 nuts per pound. It was evident that the origination was that of an Asian tree species. The tree species had first appeared in North America before the first humans crossed the Bering Strait in about 10,000 B.C. (Jones, 2013) Archaeological evidence reveals that the fossil remains discovered along the major streams and irrigation canals in Texas and the northern part of Mexico, indicate that it was the birthplace of the pecan species. (Murray, Pizzorno, 2005). Before European settlement, pecans were widely consumed and traded by Native Americans. As a food source, pecans are a natural choice for pre-agricultural society. They can provide two to five times more calories per unit weight than say, wild game, and require no preparation or risks (Hill, …show more content…
Esteban Herrera, an Extension Horticulturist at the College of Agriculture at New Mexico State proclaims that the planting of the pecans in West Texas and Arizona during the 1960s gave others interests in planting new pecan orchards. This was the first time pecans were considered economically justified because the growers notice the positive change in the returns from the highly productive trees that were planted in earlier years (Historical Background of Pecan Plantings.., 2005). Georgia Farmers didn’t realize the benefits of using the tree nut until the
The site played a significant role for the study of the strategic hunting method practiced by Native American. The native people hunted herds of bison by stampeding them over a 10- 18 metre high cliff. This hunting method required a superior knowledge of regional topography and bison behaviour. The carcasses of the bison killed were carved up by the native people and butchered in the butchering camp set up on the flats.
There are three parts in West’s book; the first part focuses on the sociological, ecological and economic relationships of the plains Indians, starting with the first establish culture of North America, the Clovis peoples. Going into extensive detail pertaining to early geology and ecology, West gives us a glimpse into what life on the early plains must have looked to early peoples. With vastly differing flora and fauna to what we know today, the early plains at the end of the first ice age, were a different place and lent itself to a diverse way of life. The Clovis peoples were accomplished hunters, focusing on the abundance of Pleistocene megafauna such as earlier, larger forms of bison. Though, little human remains were found, evidence of their s...
The American chestnut was not only an important food source for almost all living organisms of the Eastern, North America, but it was very important in providing housing and furniture and numerous other wooden necessities. The tree possessed rot resistant properties and strait grained wood which were valuable in buildings and many other applications. Its enormous trunk rose one-hundred feet into the canopy of the forest. Diameters of five feet have been recorded and many photos of the tree show greater trunk girths. The tree was able to produce its eatable fruit within seven years of germination. It was said to be truly treasured by early Americans.
Peyote was originally described in 1560, however it was not until the middle of the nineteenth century that botanists were able to conduct field research and correctly classify the cactus (Anderson, 1980). Field studies have concluded that there are two distinct populations of peyote which represent two species. The first and most common, Lophophora williamsii extends from southern Texas reaching south to the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi. The second and least common of the two species is Lophophora difusa, which occurs in the dryer terrain of the Mexican state of Queretaro. This species differs from the more common species by, "being yellowish-green rather than blue green in color, by lacking any type of ribs or furrows, by having poorly developed podaria (elevated humps), and by being a softer, more succulent plant" (Anderson 1980). Native Americans use peyote in their religious practices because of its psychoactive properties, and is usually eaten as mescal buttons, the dried, brown pieces of the above part of the cactus (Lewis, 1977).
One of the methods to acquire food for the Cahuilla was through Gathering and Harvesting seasonal foods. One of the most notable food the Cahuilla’s enjoyed was the Pinion Nuts. Pinion Nuts derive from a pine tree that is local to the South Western California and upper Mexico. The pine tree contains a small edible s...
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The Pecan tree is a native tree to North America. When early European settlers traveled across the sea to settle in the New World, they found pecan trees located in numerous places in this new land. Since then, the pecan tree has become one of the most important orchard species in terms of acreage. Indians began using pecans almost 8000 years ago in what is now Texas. The first budded pecan trees were produced in Louisiana in the mid-1800s and orchards have been established throughout the Southern states. The first recorded shipment of pecans to England was documented in 1761, by Spanish and European explorers (Anderson and Crocker, 2004). In 1917, a commercial shipment of pecans came out of Georgia and since then, Georgia has been the leading producer of pecans. Although Georgia is the leading producer, in some years collections of pecans from wild trees in Oklahoma and Texas surpass the production in Georgia.
Although the lifestyle of the Clovis people in the Gault seem to pose a little contradiction to the standard beliefs of Clovis people, where they were from and how they got there was much more controversial. The first explanation discussed in the article focused on the journey from Siberia, then in pursuit of their preys passed through ice-free corridors, reached the Great Plains and soon made extinct about 35 genera of big animals. The first criticism about this theory was the fact from latest studies that the ice-free corridor did not exist until about 12,000 years ago. This makes...
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Chocolate or cacao was first discovered by the Europeans as a New World plant, as the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. In Latin, Theobroma literally means: “food of the Gods” (Bugbee, Cacao and Chocolate: A Short History of Their Production and Use). Originally found and cultivated in Mexico, Central America and Northern South America, its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC. The majority of the Mesoamerican people made chocolate beverages, including the Aztecs, who made it into a beverage known as xocolātl, a Nahuatl word meaning “bitter water” (Grivetti; Howard-Yana, Chocolate: History, Culture, and Heritage). It was also a beverage in Mayan tradition that served a function as a ceremonial item. The cacao plant is g...
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(Minifie B.w, 1989) The cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao) is a surprising tree, which is growed in certain constrained ranges and atmosphere conditions; it is a local of thick tropical timberlands of the Amazon where it develops in semi shade, and high modesty and it is accepted to have spread regularly westwards, and northwards to Guyana and Mexico then later headed to the Caribbean islands. (Morganelli A, 2006) the cocoa tree first develop in rainforests of south and focal America, Its first cultivator s from harvests to trees where the aged Mesoamerican and most cocoa trees are developed in spots close to the equator where the climate is constantly hot and wet. (Backett S.t, 2008) To be called ''...
...here has been. The 8,700 year old dating also coincides with the approximate age of maize domestication given by genealogists.