Would it surprise you the fruit in an all-American apple pie, isn't actually American at all. It actually originates from parts of Asia! The same goes for so much of the fruit and vegetables we eat. Trace shows us the Old World foods that became staples of New World diets.
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One of the first fruit trees planted in America is still alive and well at age 383
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"When the first European settlers stepped foot on Plymouth Rock in 1620, the landscape they encountered must have felt like the epitome of wildness."
The Surprising History of America's Wild Horses
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"Modern horses, zebras, and asses belong to the genus Equus, the only surviving genus in a once diverse family, the Equidae."
How The Delicious Apple Got Its Name
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"The story of a bright red apple that has become an American icon."
A Brief History of Palm Trees in Southern California
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"If you close your eyes and imagine a typical Southern California landscape, chances are that you've pictured at least one palm tree, if not several, rising from the ground."
New World Foods
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"A lot of the foods that we enjoy today have not been around forever. When Christopher Columbus sailed west in 1492, he discovered a lot more than just new people and new land. On this new land that he discovered there were new kinds of food that Europeans had never heard of or seen. Columbus ate food that he had never tasted before, and he brought these foods back to Europe and Africa, ....and they spread like fire!"
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