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As an Oklahoman, it is a shock for me to learn that okra is from the Old World
I always love hitting a patch of wild onions when mowing the lawn. Smells so good.
I just went grocery shopping and oh wow looks like onions are nice and cheap and domestic.
Early this week I was cutting onions (figuratively), I feel better now that I’m cutting onions (literally). Made some tacos. Things are good.
Americas have grains they just largely weren’t domesticated.
Some were, but generations of cultural genocide, land theft, and economic pressures meant that many domesticated crops and practices were lost. For example, it was illegal in many places for indigenous americans to eat any “indian” food or to grow, hunt, or collect any of their traditional foods. They were forced to work for low pay and spend money to buy western foods, or they were forced to stay on reservations and rely on federal food programs
I had an Indian guy tell me Indians have been eating chilies for thousands of years and that’s why they can tolerate spicy food more than Americans. I told him chilies come from the Americas, aren’t native to India, and only arrived after the Columbian exchange. The guy nearly wanted to fight me over it, insisting that chilies are native to India.
He’s an idiot. We were using peppers before we got our hands on chillies.
Tell him Peru and Thailand have more varieties of chillies to burst his nerve.
If by peppers you mean black pepper, sure. But sweet bell peppers are the same species as jalapeños: Capsicum annuum.
Green, black, and white pepper (three life stages of peppercorn) along with long pepper, horseradish, and ginger.
Or tomato sauce being a product of the Americas 🫠
Tomato sauce is clearly a native Italian product /s
All cuisine from all countries restarted 500 years ago. Korea didn’t have chili peppers, Russia didn’t have tea or potatoes, no one had coffee, it’s amazing how much of our cultural identity is firmed up after a few generations.
If only onions and the like didn’t give me such gutwrenching cramps, love the taste, but partaking in anything containing onions, leek or too much garlic just isn’t worth the aftermath. ☹️
But they were all deceived. For another plant foodstuffs was made. One Allium to rule them all, One Allium to find them; One Allium to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
But…I don’t want to throw my Allium in a Volcano :(
…would you, if it was deliciously caramelised afterwards? 👉👈
Man, i fucking love alliums. ❤️ garlic ❤️ onions ❤️
Don’t forget our favorite New World plant:
Fuck yeah! Where was this a year ago?
Cold bean shots rule
Thanks, I hate it.
We don’t know where onions originated because their use predates written language.
Holy crap
One correction and fun fact: We absolutely had bamboo.
I’d also argue us in the Old World didn’t suffer without cranberries - we always had the similarly delicious Vaccinium vitis-idaea.
I actually prefer it to cranberries
The bamboo you can see in Spain is the American one and now that I think about it, to call it bamboo it’s a relatively recent thing, thirty years ago it was most commonly known as american cane.
It’s almost exclusively called River Cane here. Probably why nobody thinks it’s bamboo.
Alliums are legion.
Mmmmm, grass and nightshade
