The Columbian exchange
by Alfred W. Crosby, Crosby, Alfred W., Jr. · first published 1972
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There are many examples of that. Hungarian paprika made of peppers that are originally from the Americas. Same for Indian cuisine. Read The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 by Alfred W. Crosby My understanding is that pizza maybe originally from Italy, but it was popularized in the US by Italian-Americans. When American tourists…
on “The wild pizzas of southern Italy” ↗Indeed. Read "The Columbian Exchange" book by Alfred W. Crosby. Imagine Hungarians without paprika and Indian cuisine without peppers. :-)
on “Vanilla Production in Geodesic Domes” ↗Alfred Crosby's classic history The Columbian Exchange explores how syphilis was perhaps the only major disease that went from the New World to the Old World. Well worth a read even though it's almost 50 years old at this point. Also I hadn't realized until…
on “Medieval DNA suggests Columbus didn’t trigger syphilis epidemic in Europe” ↗…the context of present-day Mexico and Peru, which indeed did have urbanization on a scale to rival Europe). A personal pet peeve of mine is that Alfred Crosby wrote about this stuff in the 1970s (The Columbian Exchange) and the 1980s (Ecological Imperialism) but Diamond gets all the credit for it because he successfully repackaged it for more popular audiences, without adding much.
on “Life in the Americas Before Columbus (2002)” ↗Actually 1491 was more a condensing of research. IIRC it was actually Alfred W. Crosby who proposed this in his book The Columbian Exchange
on “Reintroducing bison on tallgrass prairie doubles plant diversity” ↗