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Date: 2020-11-06 12:47 am (UTC)On the subject of Turtledove's Sims [1] and the Colombian Exchange, I read a while back (in a book on the history of bread, of all things) that British settlers became dependent on corn early on: it turns out that much of Eastern North America was a bad place for wheat, which a variety of local molds and rusts found very tasty.
[1] A word now with odd associations