#edit: this isnt even counting traditional foods that settlers dont eat!!

[merry-harlowe]

I love thinking about just how many foods & crops originated in the americas. Our ancestors gave us corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, beans, squash, chili & bell peppers, tomatoes, cacao, peanuts, avocados, blueberries, pineapples, vanilla, amaranth, cassava, chia, papaya, quinoa, sunflowers, tomatillos, guava, passion fruit, dragon fruit, strawberries, cranberries, concord grapes, cashews, pecans, agave, and more like. In every meal I enjoy the labor and love of hundreds of generations of indigenous Americans

#theo rambles #this is something I think about so much #like what did Europeans even *eat* before they came and extracted our resources #our foods have shaped so much of the rest of the worlds cuisine #and it so often goes unrecognized #so heres to the ancestors <3 #edit: this isnt even counting traditional foods that settlers dont eat!!