16th century: two delicious foods are shipped
When European colonizers set foot in the Americas, they tasted several fruits and vegetables that were unlike anything they had ever eaten before. Naturally, they took them to the mainland for others to enjoy.
Spanish conquerors saw the first potatoes in South America and discovered heavenly chocolate in present-day Mexico. Did you know that Caspar Bauhin, a Swiss botanist, wrote in 1596 that potatoes could cause leprosy? According to him, the vegetable looked odd.
