Three episodes from a 13-part series that explores the changes in the way people ate when Christopher Columbus made his voyages and opened up the exchange of plants and animals between the Old World and the New.

Pt. XI looks at the introduction of livestock to the Americas that insured the success of all future Spanish settlements, meat became the least expensive food in America, and America became the best fed population in the world. Pt. XII finds out why the tomato was readily accepted in Italy and Southern Europe but not in the north. Pt. XIII is an overview of the series, looks at the forces that led to the voyages of Columbus and their continuing effect on our world, a synopsis of the most important historical data presented in the series.