Food has always been complicated, not the least because we can’t live without it. Throughout human history, the hunt for food has fueled migration, war and exploration. Changing tastes in food can change history. Europeans came upon the Americas while trying to break the Ottoman Empire’s monopoly on the spice trade. And Europeans’ yen for sugar in the 17th century sparked the development of Caribbean sugar plantations and the transatlantic trade of enslaved people.
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