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All Spicy Food Is from Latin America
- desktopninja 5y agoI'll add to this the word "zapatoe = shoe" in Zambia. Fascinating! Globalization (might as well say human migration) has always happened and its just new people that think its just happening. I'll theorize too that once country borders got mapped/defined/enforced, the fluidity of cultural exchanges became bottle necked.
- tarun_anand 5y agoDepends on what you call spices. Black pepper is definitely Indian. Please read this different account and history from McCormick institute https://www.mccormickscienceinstitute.com/resources/history-of-spices https://www.mccormickscienceinstitute.com/resources/history-...
- tarun_anand 5y agoSpices and herbs such as black pepper, cinnamon, turmeric, and cardamom have been used by Indians for thousands of years for both culinary and health purposes. Spices indigenous to India (such as cardamom and turmeric) were cultivated as early as the 8th century BC in the gardens of Babylon (2).