It's World Food Day! Do you know your food origins?
It's World Food Day! Do you know your food origins?
Oct. 16 is World Food Day, a good time to understand how we take an enormous range of fruits, vegetables, herbs, grains and nuts for granted. Food production and trade have become global in scope, yet the staples in our cuisine originated in one part of the globe or another. How did these foods become a part of our diets? Let's see how well you know where your foods originated.
Oct. 16 is World Food Day, a good time to understand how we take an enormous range of fruits, vegetables, herbs, grains and nuts for granted. Food production and trade have become global in scope, yet the staples in our cuisine originated in one part of the globe or another. How did these foods become a part of our diets? Let's see how well you know where your foods originated.
An essential component of any pasta sauce, bloody mary, or Greek salad, the tomato originates where?
Pineapples, beautiful and sweet, are from where?
Potatoes are a starchy staple of the global diet, but in what region were they first domesticated?
The blueberry, a fruit species that's tasty either dry or fresh. This berry's history is rooted in what continent?
Green Beans, haricots verts, french beans. Where are they from?
A delicious member of the gourd family, squash is actually a fruit, not a vegetable. Who first began to cultivate it?
Don't call it "plain!" Vanilla comes from an orchid species, but these orchids first grew in?
A delicate nut that comes from an apple-like fruit, the cashew is native to the region of what modern country?
Peanuts are great in a PB&J, pad thai, or a chocolate bar ... or roasted or plain. Where are they from?
Either smoked or chewed, nicotine fiends have enjoyed tobacco for centuries, for better or worse. But it also had medicinal and ceremonial uses for peoples located in?