[HIGHLIGHTS] Vanessa Quintanar, historian: “The potato was the American food that had the worst reception”

Vanessa Quintanar is a food historian and guest professor in the Master of Management and Innovation of Gastronomic Culture at the University of Cádiz. She has just published Cibus Indicus: American Foods in the Arts and Sciences of the Modern Age European (16th-18th centuries) American foods occupied an increasingly important place in European art and literature.

Velázquez, Cervantes, Quevedo, Tirso, Flemish masters, Goya appear.