in professor lowden's retelling, it is not just decide effect, it is a vector of imperial power. the imperial dimensions of insine it proposes to adopt the interest of power i think she rightly suggests has been .verlooked by history tobeyond its contribution food history this is also i think a profound and powerful history of food and empire. thank you. [applause] >> hi. good afternoon. i am libby o'connell. i am currently the commissioner commission.d war i my response today has nothing to do with world war i, let's go on record here. thank you to the aha and to professor laudan for writing this book. and for inviting me, amanda, to participate in this panel today. thet my food history from point of view of an historian. i had my first job is working as a costumed historian. cape cod. jims there in 1975 when changed the way we did public history at living history museums. so it was a moment of revolution there and it was also a revolution in how food was being prepared at the plantations for the tourists. i was working primarily in the house where we showcased historical food w

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to the extent that i have a beef with professor lowden, this five minutes could have all been food puns really easily. with her characterization of what scholars call the columbian exchange, this idea of alfred crosby from the 1970's, basically the columbian exchange stands for the exchange of all kinds of living things, whether they are microbes or plants or animals. that was triggered with columbus' first encounter with the new world at the end of the 15th century. if i am understanding her correctly, she argues that because the transfer of new world plants to the old world occurred without -- and i think this is a quote -- the accompanying new world technology, meaning the exchange was more or less a one-way, east to west transfer. had to rehydrate the chilies, for ansys. or you had to soak the maze to get the kernel out of the husk. to make it nutritive and not sort of quasi-poisonous. what that means is sort of a blood weight street. -- a one-way street. and all of that is true, by the way, as professor laudan can tell you. lots of italians in the 19 centuries consumed maize in the