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Originally Posted by Worth1
According to the original definition or intent of landrace in (1908?) there is no such thing as a landrace corn/maize.
It was completely man made starting around 9,000 years ago or at least that is the oldest sample of it found so far.
It still to this day baffles me as to how and why they did it and it does many other people to.
No one seems to agree just what plants it came from.
One of the most important crops ever developed on earth.
And the most important ever developed in the Americas.
Then even more astounding they some how came of with
nixtamalization to make it nutritious
Worth
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probably a total disaster and eating it meant survival... you weren't out anything to to eat it if that was all there was to eat? death by starvation or
maybe death by eating the unknown?