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TitleVideo: Day of the Dead and food
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There is a video from PBS about Day of the Dead (title: Food for the
Ancestors) that includes a trip to the Mexican marketplace. In this program
they talk about the origins of the foods (Europe or the Americas). Here is a list
of animals and foods from Americas and Europe.

Animals from Latin America: lama & alpaca, turkey

Foods from Latin America
-chocolate (Aztec word-Nahuatl language- is chocolatl)
-tomato (Aztec word tomatl)
-avocado (in Nahuatl/Aztec language is ahuacatl
-potato
-sweet potato
-corn
-squash (pumpkin)
-tobacco

Europe: wheat, goat, horse

CJ. (17 Jul. 2004). Culture Class. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv.
FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (23 Jul. 2004).
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