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Coffee.
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Potatoes, however, contributed to our population explosion, as they can grow a lot of calories in rather marginal land. And it's an easily digestible starch, also.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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french fries suck
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and I thought this would be about cannabis...
At the least, barley or grape fine.."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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I have this cool book about American food plants: potatoes, new world beans, peppers, tomatoes, chocolate, vanilla, amaranth, qinoa, and maize.
Amaranth and qinoa are both extensively used in Latin America, but haven't made it out yet. qinoa is a grain that's extremely high in protein, and amaranth is a grain and leafy vegitable that's very nutricious.
Most of the beans we think of are actually from the New World. Only mung, fava, and soy are old world beans. Everything else, including green beans, are from or were developed from, new world beans.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Yep, I´d go with this,Originally posted by Sandman
Coffee.
or with Nicotiana tabacum (although I don´t smoke).
Both had throughout the world a very strong influence on Culture.Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
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You know, a very strong argument can be made for pepper.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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But that's not a single. plant. Cayenne? No, that doens't make sense. since it's S Americna. It'd probably have to South Asian probably."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Qinoa hasn't made it out yet? The box of it sitting in my kitchen is very odd then.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Amaranth and qinoa are both extensively used in Latin America, but haven't made it out yet. qinoa is a grain that's extremely high in protein, and amaranth is a grain and leafy vegitable that's very nutricious.Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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Of course I count. Normally, I'm the only one of any importance to count.Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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Ah yes, the pepper, my favourite of the vegetables. Not necessarily my most eaten vegetable but it is versatile. Always use it in my curries, stir fries and, well, anything else I can think where it would fit
Now hemp is an interesting one - it is a shame it is not used industrially as it's applications are endless and far, far more efficient (it's future as a source for the manufacture of fuels is amazing). It looks like protectionism has got in the way of this getting established...Speaking of Erith:
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Actually, all peppper's used in modern cuisine come pretty much from those two root species I mention, which are very possible the same plant domesticated multiple times in the Americas. All those peppers in Asian quisine - since 1600. If you look at most if not all major cuisines throughout the world, the pepper plant has been incorporated in all of them.The worst form of insubordination is being right - Keith D., marine veteran. A dictator will starve to the last civilian - self-quoted
And on the eigth day, God realized it was Monday, and created caffeine. And behold, it was very good. - self-quoted
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Re: The plant that changed the world
Originally posted by shawnmmcc
Everyone grows it, everyone eats it, and everyone has it in their cuisine in one way or another - even the British! (please note, some philistine will find some outlandish exception to this, like maybe the cuisine of Greenland - to which I intellectually reply -
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Could I just point out shawn, that even in jest this continual denigration of the British cuisine and palate is rather tiresome...
And may I also point out that the Venerable Bede thought so highly of peppercorns (and indeed they were so highly prized in England and Europe at the time) that they are specifically mentioned as being an item left in his will.
' Bede died in his cell at the monastery in the year 735. Cuthbert, a young monk who was with him later wrote an account of his death. He describes how Bede finished dictating a chapter of a book which he was composing. Then he said "I have a few treasures in my box, some pepper and napking and incense. Run quickly and fetch the priests of our monastery, and I will share among them such little presents as God has given me." '
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May I also add my vote for the potato, which as the Spaniards found out through the Incas was both tasty, nutritious and filling, and could also be freeze dried and stored.
As Frederick the Great found, he could wage war across German territory and Central Europe and not cause famine (as had happened during earlier conflicts involving German states and territories) because the potato was relatively undamaged by the course of rampaging armies, as it lay underground.
It was also partly responsible for the explosive population growth in Ireland and the Great Britain (unlike other crops being relatively unaffected by the occasionally dreary climate in the north of the United Kingdom) and has penetrated the cuisines of countries as diverse as Ireland, Japan and Nepal, India, South Africa and Morocco. The potato blight resulted in the great Irish diaspora which did have an effect on American history as I recall....
It also fed the growing population of industrial workers in Belgium, the Netherlands, northern France and the Rhineland. It's even said, quel horreur! that some people make hard liquor out of it....
Wheat and oats also greatly effected the course of history in Western and Central Europe, but I too will plump for the humble spud and leave the cereals for breakfast.
Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
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