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Article: Delicious history.(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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Byline: Rachel Dickinson
Imagine a year of lunches without a single potato chip, apple slice, or carrot stick. No French fries, no ketchup, no tacos. And forget about corn flakes for breakfast, too. That's the kind of menu you'd be facing if enterprising humans hadn't discovered, tasted, developed, improved, and transplanted fruits and vegetables growing in one region to the rest of the world. Would you have been brave enough to try a tomato, once thought to be poisonous? Could you have seen the snack potential in an Andean tuber? The crunchy possibilities of a meadow weed called Queen Anne's lace? Someone did. And your meals are that much richer and more ...