Where do pinto beans come from? South America
Pinto Beans (USDA photo) Beans evolved along with the other flowering plants about 360 million years ago. Bean plants are a kind of vine or bush, and the beans grow [...]
Pinto Beans (USDA photo) Beans evolved along with the other flowering plants about 360 million years ago. Bean plants are a kind of vine or bush, and the beans grow [...]
History of peanuts: a wild peanut plant growing in sandy soil Wild peanuts Wild peanuts evolved about the same time as other flowering plants, about 350 million years ago. They're [...]
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 [...]
Clay model of Moche people eating To eat what Chavin or Moche or Nazca people might have eaten, try making this delicious Peruvian stew. It's filling and vegan! Fill a [...]
Yuca bread or cassava bread To get a better idea of what yuca tastes like and what you can make with it, try making yuca bread, as people did in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tomato How many things can you find around your house that people had in South or Central America before 1500 (before the European invasion)? If you don't find many around [...]
A cotton and alpaca wool cloth from Peru, about 200 AD (in the Brooklyn Museum) First place where people grew cotton South America was the first place in the world where people grew [...]