Columbian Exchange 1

Imani Phillips

 

                                                     Gluttony Café's Chicken Noodle Soup

​​Chicken Noodle Soup is a common dish found around the American table. It is often used for sickness or to simply warm the souls in a cold house. When visiting the Gluttony Café, I devoured a wonderful Chicken Noodle Soup. The ingredients found inside this soup were chicken, onions, garlic, corn, and wheat pasta. While reading the dishes description, the fine print told that these items were used in the Columbian Exchange. When first understanding that the Columbian Exchange was a dispersion of plants, animals, humans, diseases, and technological ideas between Afro- Eurasia and America (New World), I began to investigate where exactly the foods used were from.

While many of the foods found in American can be conveniently grown, most foods were traded from the Old World to the New World. Within the Chicken Noodle Soup were more ingredients from the Old World than the New. The domesticated chicken was one of many imports from the Old World to the New World. Vegetables such as onions carrots, and garlic were also given to the Americas by The Old World. When fist examining the soup, I viewed wheat pasta in which I also learned was from the Old World to New World. The only ingredient used in the Chicken Noodle Soup that I found to be an export from the Americas was maize (corn) which did not play a major role in the soup.

While I did enjoy the dish of Chicken Noodle Soup conveniently found at the Gluttony Café, I was enlightened on a significant trade process known as the Columbian Exchange. Two thumbs up to the chef.