Where does sorghum come from? African food
A field of sorghum growing Sorghum, like millet, is one of the plants that African people figured out how to farm and then spread to the rest of the world. [...]
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Salt caravans in Africa and China
A salt caravan across the Sahara Desert By 252 BC, a Chinese governor named Li Bing also figured out how to mine salt. People dug deep pits down to where [...]
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Where does palm oil come from? Africa
Palm trees Palm trees first began to grow in
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Where does millet come from? Sudan, China, Europe
A field of millet What is millet? Millet is a kind of grain that grows wild in Africa and all across Europe and Asia. It grows about fifteen feet tall, [...]
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When did people start to eat honey?
Early history of honey: A chimpanzee smashing a beehive to get honey When did bees start to make honey? Bees first began to make honey about 200 million years ago, [...]
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Where did figs come from? History of figs
Some raw figs: History of figs Where are wild figs from? Wild fig trees first grew in Africa and West Asia and South Asia and around the Mediterranean Sea beginning [...]
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History of coffee – Where does coffee come from?
Where does coffee come from? Coffee history starts in Africa. Coffee plants grew wild in East Africa. Sometime before 1000 AD, the people who lived in Ethiopia, in East Africa, began to pick [...]
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How to eat figs – African food
Figs activity: How to eat a fresh fig The best way to find out more about figs is to eat some! If you live where there are fig trees (anywhere warm), pick [...]
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How to make aloco – West African food
Aloco Palm oil and plantains Heat a cup of red palm oil (or peanut oil if you can't get palm oil) in a frying pan. Peel and slice raw plantains [...]
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Chocolate and Africa
A white man beating an enslaved African man in Brazil African-American slavery and chocolate As more and more people wanted chocolate, farmers had to grow more and more cacao beans. [...]
