ABSTRACT French colonists in seventeenth century New France were introduced to maize, the staple of the Native American diet. In the eighteenth century, when French agriculturalists settled along the Mississippi River, they grew maize but preferred not to eat it themselves, as fur traders and soldiers had previously done. Maize avoidance reflected the changing socio-economic framework of French settlement. Fur traders were concerned with integrating themselves into Native American kin networks, while farmers elaborated distinctions between “French” and “Indian” in the domains of housing, clothing, and food, symbolized by the opposition of wheat bread to maize mush, while readily adopting other native foods – game, pumpkins, maple sugar, even bear oil. Maize was shipped down the Mississippi to Louisiana, but also used to feed the sizeable slave population as well as landless French laborers. Food choices reflected race and class differences, rather than set cultural preferences.

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避免玉米？Pays des Illinois（17-18 世纪）法国殖民时期对美洲原住民食物的态度

摘要 17 世纪新法兰西的法国殖民者开始食用玉米，这是美洲原住民饮食的主食。在 18 世纪，当法国农学家在密西西比河沿岸定居时，他们种植玉米，但不愿像皮草贸易商和士兵以前那样自己吃。避免使用玉米反映了法国定居点不断变化的社会经济框架。毛皮贸易商关心将自己融入美洲原住民的亲属网络，而农民则在住房、衣服和食品领域详细阐述“法国”和“印度”之间的区别，以小麦面包与玉米糊的对立为标志，同时很容易接受其他本地食物——野味、南瓜、枫糖，甚至熊油。玉米沿着密西西比河运到路易斯安那州，但也用来养活大量的奴隶人口以及无地的法国劳工。食物选择反映了种族和阶级差异，而​​不是设定文化偏好。