In honor of Columbus Day, we’re celebrating with some Americas-inspired treats:
Peanut butter, chocolate chip cookies and oven roasted pumpkin seeds.
I don’t know enough of my food history to credit Columbus with peanut butter.
As I recall, the Spaniards, after Columbus reached the Americas, are widely believed to have spread this legume throughout the world. Peanuts are an Americas original.
Chocolate is also a South and Central American rainforest native, so my semi-sweet chips count too.
As for the pumpkin seeds, we can thank early settlers for alerting us to what our Central American neighbors had already enjoyed as a dietary staple for thousands of years.
Tonight…something with another Americas contribution to the world’s diet, the tomato.
Virtual Farmgirl 
George Washington Carver is the father of peanut butter. It was he who also proved to 19th century Americans that tomatoes are not poisonous. Yes. I am a geek. Gotta problem wit dat?
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Oh yeah. We even saw the GW Carver exhibit at the Field Museum last year. It was fantastic. He was ahead of his time and remains a VFG innovation hero.
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George Washington Carver is the father of peanut butter. It was he who also proved to 19th century Americans that tomatoes are not poisonous. Yes. I am a geek. Gotta problem wit dat?
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Oh yeah. We even saw the GW Carver exhibit at the Field Museum last year. It was fantastic. He was ahead of his time and remains a VFG innovation hero.
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