hi! there's lots of room for more contributions to cover more "old world" cultures, but you can get a good start on these previous posts:

Various:

• If potatoes are from the Americas, what was the staple food of many European places before they found them?

• What crops were grown in northern Europe pre 1500?

• What were some Old World cuisines like before the Columbian Exchange?

• What was Asian cuisine like before the Colombian exchange?

• What was Indian and Southeast Asian cooking like before the introduction of the chili pepper?

Italy:

• What was Roman/Early Middle Ages food like in Italy?

• How different is food preparation/taste 2,000 years ago vs today?

• What were some Old World cuisines like before the Columbian Exchange?

• When did "traditional Italian" cuisine start and what made it happen? The Roman food is almost nothing like it.

• How did tomatoes become so important to Italian cooking?

• How much culinary knowledge was exchanged between China and Italy esp regarding culinary techniques?

• What was Italian food like before they were introduced to the tomato?

• Italian cooking before the introduction of the tomato

Hi there!

This is a really cool question; I'm fascinated with food history myself. However, the Americas vary so much from region to region that foods people could have eaten in one place would likely not have been available somewhere else. For instance, along the coasts, there is a common Indigenous saying (which I've heard attributed to both Northwest Coast peoples and Maori) that "when the tide goes out, the table is set," meaning that their dinners would largely come from the ocean. Inland communities, on the other hand, would have had to rely on very different sorts of plants and animals for their daily meals. So, if you can let us know what specific area you're interested in, I bet you can get some really great info.

That said, I've been able to dig up some older answers to similar queries on the topic. Hopefully you get some new replies too, but either way, definitely check these out:

What did native Americans eat before the arrival of Europeans?

How common among Native North/Central/South Americans was the so-called "Three Sisters" diet?