(Mediterranean and Native American Invasion in
our Vegetable Diet)
I was discussing with a friend of mine on a
restaurant, lately. It all started with me picking on him about his food habit.
He was having Chinese, I remember, and I was having south Indian. He
interestingly hit me back with a question ‘What ingredients my food has that
yours doesn’t?’ Ironically, I had no answer to tell him. Not only that we had
same vegetables on our plates, but they were all foreign in origin.
Having read Jared Diamond’s “Guns, germs and
steel” I already had an idea of Native American vegetable species dominating
other vegetables all over the world. It was, basically, an European point of
view who had been having vegetables originated from Mediterranean and Mesopotamian
(Parts of Iran) regions. From an Indian point of view, the domination is adjoined by
European vegetables as well.