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With the discovery of the New World and the dawn of the modern era, a triumph of foods began that are now taken for granted in Europe: potatoes, corn and many other fruits from the newly discovered countries of America enrich the European menu. You can also find this and other documentaries in the ARD Mediathek: https://www.ardmediathek.de/dokus These foods and thus also our food are making history. In small episodes, this film shows how people ate in past centuries and how much their lives depended on food. It is mutual relationships that connect people with their food and provide impulses for change. The potato, for example, initially had a hard time being accepted in the Old World. The nightshade plant was too mysterious, its flowers poisonous. And yet people were able to survive famines with this tuber. From the middle of the 18th century, it was increasingly featured as a food on European menus. The same applies to corn, tomatoes and pineapples. Food can change entire nutritional systems. Today's eating culture is therefore not self-evident and not unchangeable; it is accompanied by dynamic processes. A recent example is pizza. Almost everyone likes it and it fits in with the eating habits in single households today. More information: https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendunge... First broadcast on NDR Doku YouTube: October 11, 2024 First broadcast on NDR Fernsehen: 2013 #ndr #doku #nutrition