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I Ate Only 15th Century Nahua-Aztec Food for a Week | Nebula First
For the seventh time, I embark on a journey through the Thyme-Space continuum to enjoy some 15th century Nahua-Aztec food for a week!
Research consultant: Sarah Prince, researcher at University of St Andrews
All other pre-production, production, and post-production work done by V. Birchwood.
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Further Reading:
Anonymous. (2017). Tamales in Mexico. Visual Overview. Mexican Archaeology. Special Edition No. 76
Códice Magliabecchiano, Lamina 73r. En la colección de la Biblioteca Nacional Central de Florencia, Italia. Reproducido en 1903 en el libro de Zelia Nuttall sobre la vida de los antiguos mexicanos (The Book of the Life of the Ancient Mexicans).
González Jácome, A. (2018). Corn and nutrition: A short history of a long journey. Journal of Agricultural Geography , (60), 9–69. https://doi.org/10.5154/r.rga.2017.59.007
García Cook, A. (2014). Archaeology and History of Tlaxcala. Mss. Submitted to the Tlaxcalan Institute of Culture.
Stefan, A. 2010. Cook Your Own Aztec Feast (Getty) https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/cook-your-own-aztec-feast/
Diaz Del Castillo, B. 1928. The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, 1517–1521. London: Routledge, 1928.
Osborne, Ken; Kahn, Charles N. 2005. World History: Societies of the Past. Winnipeg: Portage & Main Press. ISBN 978-1-55379-045-7..)
O'Connor, A.M. and Anderson, E.N., 2016. K'oben: 3,000 years of the Maya hearth. Rowman & Littlefield.
Hernan Cortés. "The Aztec Civilization: Cortés's Account of the City of Mexico," in vol. 5 of The Library of Original Sources: 9th to 16th Century, ed. Oliver J. Thatcher (Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2004), 325.
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, trans. John Ingram Lockhart (London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1844), 229.
Jeffrey M. Pilcher,¡Que vivan los tamales! Food and the Making of Mexican Identity (Alburquerque: UNM Press, 1998), 18.
Pamela G. Kittler and Kathryn Sucher, Food and Culture (Belmont: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008), 264.
Cooper-Clark, James (ed.) 1938 Codex Mendoza. London: Waterlow.
Elizabeth Morán, The Sacred as Everyday: Food and Ritual in Aztec Art (New York: City University of New York, 2007), 78.
Linda Civitello, Cuisine and Culture: History of Food and Culture (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011), 109.
Hernandez, Francisco 1945 Antiguedades de la Nueva Espafia. Mexico City: Pedro Robredo.
Hernandez F, 1959 Obras completas. Mexico City: UN AM
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