If corn and potatoes are from the Americas, why weren’t Native Americans making whiskey and vodka before the Europeans showed up?
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Distilling did not develop independently in North or South America in part because, as another person pointed out the level of metallurgy needed did not exist.
This does not mean alcohol did not exist in the Americas prior to European contact. I wrote my master thesis on the consumption of corn beer called chicha, the stylistics, iconography, and potential passing of ideology via the specific vessels used to drink it by a pre-Inkan society moving from its core along the southern coast of Lake Titicaca in the Andes of Peru moving out to its periphery on the southern coast of Peru and trading/potential colonies in the highlands of Bolivia.
Potatoes remained a core subsistence crop in the area.
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