5 More Exports from the New World (Part 2)

More food is on the way

Christian Nelson
Lessons from History
5 min readJan 28, 2024

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The following is a continuation of a previous piece on culinary exports to the New World. The New World still brims with plenty of culinary contributions.

Vanilla

A spice that makes everything nice

The vanilla orchards grew undomesticated throughout much of southern Mexico, stretching until Ecuador. They were first used for human consumption among the Totonac peoples of eastern Mexico.

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