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  1. MITCH EDELSTEIN says

    Before the “discovery” of the new world, there were no potatoes outside of South America. The new world brought all sorts of vital and important foods to Europe and Asia. Included among those food items were the: Potato, tomato, cacao or chocolate, corn, kidney beans, chili peppers, squashes and pumpkins. Imagine Italian food without tomatoes or no Swiss chocolate.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_crops
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange

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