On Food and Cooking

Most food plants are not long-lived trees, but relatively small, delicate plants that produce their seeds ...

We group the foods we obtain from plants into several loose categories. Fruit and Vegetable Apart from ...

tomatoes were fruits, and so under the regulations of the time, not subject to import fees. The cus ...

These fruits are the natural world’s soft drinks and candies, flashily packaged in bright colors, and test-mark ...

meanings includes gratification, pleasure, satisfaction, enjoyment. It’s the nature of fruit to taste good, ...

Despite the fact that we consider them vegetables, capsicum “peppers,” pea pods, cucumbers, and even ...

available to any single culture. In the Western world, fruit has been eaten as dessert at least since the Gr ...

and citrus fruits. Indigenous African crops included related but distinct millets, sorghum, rice, and ...

quickly became the most popular spice of the ancient world. In Rome, lettuce was served at both the beginning a ...

New World, New Foods Plants — and especially the spice plants — helped shape world history in the ...

new cuisines of the Old World. Vegetables, Fruits, and Spices Used in the West Mediterranean Area Natives, Used ...

16 . Olive Fruits 1 . Apple 2 . Pear 3 . Cherry 4 . Grape 5 . Fig 6 . Date 7 . Strawberry Herbs and Spices 1 . Bas ...

10 . Caraway 11 . Coriander 12 . Cumin 13 . Dill 14 . Parsley 15 . Oregano 16 . Bay 17 . Caper 1 ...

5 . Broccoli 6 . Brussels sprouts Asian Natives, Brought to the West BCE Fruits 1 . Citron 2 . Apricot 3 . Peach He ...

3 . Bamboo 4 . Eggplant Fruits 1 . Lemon 2 . Lime 3 . Orange 4 . Melon Herbs and Spices 1 . Tarragon 2 . Mace 3 . Clo ...

3 . Pumpkin 4 . Squashes 5 . Tomato 6 . Kidney bean 7 . Lima bean 8 . Capsicum pepper 9 . Avocado Fruits 1 . Pineapp ...

vegetables, and handled them with greater refinement, in part to make the meatless diet of Lent a ...

parsley, mint, aromatic leaf [e.g., bay], malabathrum [a Middle Eastern leaf], plenty of cumin, honey, v ...

Salad and a Vegetable Compote (The Forme of Cury , ca. 1390) Salat: Take parsley, sage, garlic, scallions ...

Lombardy mustard, and raisins, whole currants, and grind sweet powder and whole anise, and fen ...