小麦是一种古老的作物,人类很早就驯化及栽培这种植物。发展到今天,小麦已经是人类最主要的粮食作物。在哥伦布抵达美洲前,新大陆既无野生小麦,也无人工栽培小麦的痕迹。随着欧洲移民的到来,小麦才逐步传入美洲。在整个美洲,小麦被迅速推广,并成为人们的主食,用面粉做成的食物种类繁多,风味迥异,小麦产业也随之兴盛。旧大陆小麦传入新大陆不仅是农作物的传播,更是新旧大陆农业文明交流的结晶。 Wheat is an ancient crop that humans have domesticated and cultivated. As of today, wheat is already the most important human food crop. Before Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, the New World had neither traces of wild nor cultivated wheat. With the advent of European immigrants, wheat gradually spread to the Americas. Throughout the Americas, wheat is rapidly being promoted and becomes the staple food for people. The variety of foods made from flour, the different flavors, the flourishing wheat industry. The introduction of the old wheat into the New World is not only the spread of crops but also the exchange of agricultural civilization between the old and new continents.