On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:27 PM, ashok _ <listmans...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am currently reading (and enjoying) 1493 by charles mann - well > researched, racy, non-fiction. there are are some interesting bits > about south asian cultural influence on mexico in the 17th century > (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Poblana) i had never heard of > this before .
Nice! I had read (and liked) his previous book '1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus'. Did not know he wrote the 1493 one. For a while, a couple of years ago, I read a bunch of books on the Columbian Exchange and ended up reading K.T. Acharya's 'The Story of our Food' (http://www.amazon.com/dp/817371293X) which was nice. Thaths -- Marge: Quick, somebody perform CPR! Homer: Umm (singing) I see a bad moon rising. Marge: That's CCR! Homer: Looks like we're in for nasty weather. Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
