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To: TobagoJack who wrote (192582)	10/9/2022 10:29:45 AM
From: Snowshoe	1 Recommendation Recommended By marcher Respond to of 217927

re <<because some native / indigenous food has own history>> Here's a great example... Why Is the Most American Fruit So Hard to Buy? theatlantic.com Pawpaws just might be the most quintessentially American fruit. Unlike apples or cherries, they are native to this continent. Pawpaw groves, long fostered by some Native American tribes, sustained hungry members of the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1806 and supplemented the meager diets of enslaved Africans. At least six states have towns named after the pawpaw. But starting in the 1900s, the fruit faded from view as industrial farming took over. Its homely looks may also be to blame: A 1912 New York Times article claimed that a woman could not eat a pawpaw in front of her lover because “the sight is disgusting to the point of utter disillusion.” In rural communities, some people continued foraging for pawpaws, leading to the nicknames “hillbilly banana” and “poor man’s banana.” But in recent years, as Americans have started to embrace local food and foraging has become a movement itself, the pawpaw has boomed. Today, wild pawpaws cannot seem to sustain the demand for the fruit: Rowe, the farmers’-market vendor, said he’s constantly selling out of pawpaws. Searching For The Pawpaw’s Indigenous Roots wvpublic.org The Pawpaw Paradox historynet.com

To: TobagoJack who wrote (192582)	10/9/2022 12:08:33 PM
From: marcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217927

--indigenous food has own history, for example, fried bread-- recently came upon historical accounts of a colonial virginia military "expedition" into wild western virginia. as their provisions dwindled, they were reduced to a daily ration of some sort of grain flour and butter. my guess is that they mixed the flour with water, and possibly salt, and then fried it in the butter. viola! fry bread... scottish soldiers were known to carry a bag of oats as early as the 14th century, apparently: "In the 14th century, French chronicler Jean Froissart noted Scots soldiers carried bags of oatmeal to make their own oatcakes..." digital.nls.uk intersectionality? -g-