re: #2 wheat-dogg

Not even sure the people of Hispaniola even had corn to grow. Chris sure didn’t.

They did, though it was less important than on the mainland. Taino people, food and agriculture.

Contrary to mainland practices, corn was not ground into flour and baked into bread, but was cooked and eaten off the cob. Corn bread becomes moldy faster than cassava bread in the high humidity of the Caribbean. Corn was also used to make an alcoholic beverage known as chicha.