The Globalization of Food & Plants
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Take a look at your evening meal and what do you see? Common foods that are so much a part
of daily sustenance you would hardly suspect that they originally came from another country. But it is true.
Most of the foods that we commonly eat today are the product of globalization. And often a globalization
that began centuries before the term came into use. Next time you eat one of the foods highlighted in the
following articles imagine what life would be like if that food had never left its home country.
Please click on the links below to learn about the various foods that have made a significant impact in our life today.
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Spices |
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The quest for spices helped pave the way for |
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colonialism and global empires. |
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The Potato |
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From a wild tuber to the french fry, the potato has |
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withstood the test of time and traveled the world. |
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Coffee |
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First thing in the morning or after dinner, would |
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life be as bright if coffee had never left Ethiopia? |
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The Tomato |
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Pizza, salsa, rogan josh, and ketchup: the tomato |
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has adapted to every cuisine and continues to |
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Tea |
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That cup of steaming tea in your hand has |
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traveled a long way. The twists and turns taken |
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by tea parallel the early processes of globalization. |
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Chili |
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The chili pepper has been with many cultures |
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for so long, over five hundred years to be |
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exact. |
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Tobacco |
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Cultivated in the Americas long before discovery |
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by Europeans, tobacco spread around the world |
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with its true nature in disguise. |
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