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Where did chocolate first arrive in Europe?
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Where did about a million people die when potato crops failed?
Answer: Ireland
Why: Over a million more people emigrated, and Ireland's population fell by a fifth to a quarter between 1841 and 1871.
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What vegetable gave gumbo its name?
Answer: Okra
Why: Okra crossed the Atlantic on slave-trade ships from Africa and was growing in Brazil by 1658.
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What food gave the German word Kartoffel its name?
Answer: Truffle
Why: Some German regions still say Erdapfel, earth apple, or Grundbirne, ground pear, for the potato.
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Which spirit did Britain's navy hand out daily until 1970?
Answer: Rum
Why: Britain's navy switched its sailors' daily ration from French brandy to rum after capturing Jamaica in 1655.
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What does the Italian word pomodoro literally mean?
Answer: Golden apple
Why: Mattioli's 1544 account of tomatoes in Italy described fruits that ripened golden as well as blood-red.
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Which American insect devastated Europe's vineyards in the 1800s?
Answer: Phylloxera
Why: Europe's vineyards were saved by grafting European vines onto the roots of resistant American grape species.
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