3 Bamboo Eggplant Fruits Lemon Lime Orange Melon Herbs and Spices Tarragon Mace Clove Nutmeg New World Natives, Imported 15th–16th Centuries Vegetables Potato Sweet potato Pumpkin Squashes Tomato Kidney bean Lima bean Capsicum pepper Avocado Fruits Pineapple Herbs and Spices Allspice Chillis Vanilla The 17th and 18th centuries were a time of assimilating the new foods and advancing the art of cooking them Cultivation and breeding received new attention; Louis XIV’s orchards and plantings at Versailles were legendary And cooks took a greater interest in ... Herbs and Spices Allspice Chillis Vanilla The 17th and 18th centuries were a time of assimilating the new foods and advancing the art of cooking them Cultivation and breeding received new attention; Louis XIV’s orchards... art of cooking them Cultivation and breeding received new attention; Louis XIV’s orchards and plantings at Versailles were legendary And cooks took a greater interest in