{"id":10002,"date":"2015-10-12T12:07:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T10:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alfaforni.com\/the-columbus-day\/"},"modified":"2019-05-14T11:01:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T09:01:43","slug":"the-columbus-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfaforni.com\/us\/the-columbus-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Columbus Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Time to celebrate Columbus Day and the New World foods<\/h2>\n<p>Christopher Columbus, one of the most famous\u00a0<strong>explorers in history<\/strong>. In Italian, his name is\u00a0<strong>Cristoforo Colombo<\/strong>\u00a0and in Spanish it was\u00a0<strong>Crist\u00f2bal Col\u00f2n<\/strong>. The exact date of his birth is not known, but it has been traced before the 31st of October 1451. He was born in in the Republic of\u00a0<strong>Genoa<\/strong>, which, in the modern days, is the city of Genoa. When he was young, one of his first jobs was being a trader and it is here that he started to sail the seas. He also wanted to use his knowledge from what he learnt at school such as geography, languages and astronomy. He started to think of wanting to find another water route to\u00a0<strong>Asia<\/strong>\u00a0where he can buy and trade the India\/Asian silk and spices. Columbus believed, instead of sailing east as many did, thought that he could sail west to find a shorter passage to the Asian continent.<\/p>\n<p>To fund this voyage Columbus went first to the king of Portugal but, unfortunately, the king refused. Seeing the refusal, he decided to go to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella for the money. Upon hearing his ideas for a new passage, the royal family funded his voyage.<\/p>\n<p>On the evening of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0of August,\u00a0<strong>1492<\/strong>\u00a0he sent sail for the new journey with three ships the\u00a0<strong>Pinta<\/strong>, the\u00a0<strong>Nina<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong>Santa Maria<\/strong>. The first place his expedition landed was on\u00a0<strong>San Salvador<\/strong>\u00a0and as he first saw the inhabitants, he called them Indians because he thought of having arrived in India. On continuing his voyage, he discovered also\u00a0<strong>Cuba<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Hispaniola<\/strong>. While on the islands he sought gold and traded with the local natives, but what was of most importance were the foods of the new world. Columbus discovered and brought back to Europe new vegetables and fruits. They were called the \u201cNew world\u201d foods and there were many, and they are listed, below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Corn<\/li>\n<li>Potato<\/li>\n<li>Tomato<\/li>\n<li>Bell pepper<\/li>\n<li>Chili pepper<\/li>\n<li>Vanilla<\/li>\n<li>Tobacco<\/li>\n<li>Beans<\/li>\n<li>Pumpkin<\/li>\n<li>Cassava<\/li>\n<li>Avocado<\/li>\n<li>Peanut<\/li>\n<li>Pecan<\/li>\n<li>Cashew<\/li>\n<li>Pineapple<\/li>\n<li>Blueberry<\/li>\n<li>Sunflower<\/li>\n<li>Petunia<\/li>\n<li>Marigold<\/li>\n<li>Wild rice<\/li>\n<li>Cacao (known as Chocolate)<\/li>\n<li>Squash<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These vegetables and fruits have become essential ingredients in many of the national dishes of the European nations. Some of the vegetables are also widely produced and some nations such as Italy, is famous for exporting tomatoes, beans and bell peppers. Tobacco now is also produced in Europe and the main producers are Italy, Bulgaria, Greece and Spain. Colombus opened the Old continent to the New World and in doing so gave the European cuisine the opportunity to come into contact with new ingredients that would be appreciated by many.<\/p>\n<p>The holiday, Columbus day, in America is considered a time to celebrate the\u00a0<strong>American-Italian heritage<\/strong>. The first time it was celebrated was in New York City on October 12, 1866. Only in April 1934 the holiday was considered a\u00a0<strong>national holiday<\/strong>\u00a0and is celebrated in many cities. One famous\u00a0<strong>parade<\/strong>\u00a0is that of\u00a0<strong>New York City<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>Fifth avenue<\/strong>. Here you can see musical performances by many bands from around the world and floats parading down the streets. Another famous celebration is the\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.sfcolumbusday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Francisco Columbus day parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alfa Pizza<\/strong>\u00a0wants to wish everybody, a Happy Columbus day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to celebrate Columbus Day and the New World foods  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-us","category-news-home"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfaforni.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfaforni.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfaforni.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfaforni.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfaforni.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfaforni.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfaforni.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfaforni.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfaforni.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfaforni.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}