History of chocolate: Cocoa pods grow right from the trunk of the cocoa tree! (Thanks World Cocoa Foundation) Chocolate comes from South America Chocolate comes from cacao beans, which grew [...]
Chili peppers from Central America: a chili pepper is hot! Two kinds of pepper There are two main kinds of pepper: black pepper and chili pepper. More about black pepper [...]
History of chickpeas: Dried chickpeas Chickpeas are from West Asia Chickpeas are a kind of bean that probably evolved in West Asia, in what is now eastern Turkey, around the [...]
A pile of chestnuts When did chestnuts evolve? Chestnut trees are related to oak trees, and like oak trees they probably evolved early, around 66 million years ago, around the [...]
Yuca root history: Yuca plants after they're pulled up Yuca's from South America Yuca is a South American plant that probably first evolved around the same time as the other [...]
History of carrots: Wild carrots (Queen Anne's Lace) Carrots are from Central Asia Wild carrots probably evolved with the other flowering plants, about 360 million years ago in the Cretaceous [...]
History of beer: Sumerians sipping beer through straws (ca. 2500 BC) When did people start to make beer? Even before people began farming in China, West Asia and Egypt, they [...]
Barley ready to be harvested How is barley different from wheat? Barley's a kind of grass, like wheat or millet or sorghum or rice, that is a good source of carbohydrates [...]
A bunch of bananas: History of bananas Where do bananas come from? Wild ancestors of banana trees grew in southeast Asia. Like chickens, bananas were first domesticated in southeast Asia. [...]
Avocado history: this is a modern avocado. Where do avocados grow? Mexico. Where do avocados come from? Avocados first evolved about 350 million years ago. That was in the Cretaceous [...]
