Where is olive oil from?
Olive trees (on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem) Olive trees grew around the Mediterranean Sea, and early Stone Age people used the oil from wild trees, which burns well without [...]
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Wine in ancient Greece
Greek wine drinkers playing the kottabos game (Tomb of the Diver, Paestum, ca. 470 BC) Wine as food and medicine Greek people grew wine both to drink themselves and to [...]
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Northern European food history
Northern Europeans ate a lot of ham Food is one of the most important ways that people can show what group they belong to: we eat this kind of food, [...]
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Wine-making and wine presses – History
Roman slaves treading grapes Wine-making started out pretty simple: you picked the grapes and put them in a big concrete box, and then barefooted people - usually enslaved people - [...]
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History of wine and grapes – West Asia
History of wine: White grapes on the vine Grapes grow abundantly and reliably in the West Asian climate, and taste good, and even gatherers ate wild grapes (which are smaller [...]
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Where do tomatoes come from? South America
History of tomatoes: Wild tomatoes Wild tomatoes in the Andes The earliest tomatoes were little sour berries. They grew on low bushes in dry, sunny places in the Andes mountains [...]
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History of Tea – Ancient China
Harvesting tea in China Wild tea bushes grew in southern China, where people first began in the Stone Age to make tea by drying tea leaves and then steeping them [...]
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06, 2017
Where are sweet potatoes from? Central America
Sweet potatoes People in both North America and South America ate lots of sweet potatoes. That's because sweet potatoes are very good for you. They have lots of calcium, potassium, [...]
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Where do sunflowers come from? North America
Wild sunflowers or Black-Eyed Susan flowers Where do sunflowers grow wild? Sunflowers grew wild all over North America. From the Paleo-Indian time on, many different groups of people picked sunflowers and [...]
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Sugar and slavery – North America
Slaves on a sugar plantation about 1550 AD When European explorers came to North America about 1500 AD, they soon saw that the islands of the Caribbean - Cuba, Jamaica [...]
