suggestions for Indigenismo to nonindigenous audience

[cristi at ix.netcom.com]

> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Mary Hopkins wrote:
>
> > Onions are Old World, too, though they're just as thoroughly integrated
> > into Mexican cuisine at this point as tomatoes and peppers are into
> > Italian. MH
>
> All varieties?  I thought that there were "green" onions of some variety
> in the New World, but I can't recall where I got this impression.

I wouldn't be able to believe that with wild onions all around them
(as there are all over north america), there would be a large group
of native americans who had never learned that they tasted good....

Cristi