Though found worldwide, nightshade vegetables like tomatoes and tomatillos are most abundant in the Andes of South America. Researchers have found 52-million-year-old tomatillo fossils in Patagonia. Tomatillos were first domesticated…
Paw paws date back in the Midwest, Southeast and East millions of years. Indigenous peoples across the Mississippi Valley and Southeast cultivated, foraged and traded them for millennia, leaving traces…
Asian pears originated in China and Japan and have been grown in these and other Asian nations for over 3000 years. Asian pears first came to the to the west…