The European Diet

It’s hard for us to imagine what ___included in the European diet before America ___discovered ___Columbus in 1492. So many ingredients which today ___grown all over the world ___unknown to medieval Europeans. Potatoes, tomatoes, maize and chocolate ___all originally imported from the New World. Until then, meals had___prepared with ingredients native to Europe, such as root vegetables. Of course, spices such as pepper ___been traded and added to food for centuries. When the potato ___first introduced, it was surprisingly unpopular. It ___considered to be poisonous and it took a long time for it to become common. There is a story of Parmentier, a French army officer, who ___potatoes planted in the royal garden and ___Marie Antoinette to wear a potato flower. The poor peasants were curious about the new plants and many of them ___ stolen to be planted in their own gardens. It was the start of French fries!
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