Deep purple
Dec 09, 2020
2 minutes
Words Chloe Thomson
Originally grown for thousands of years in China and India, the versatile eggplant made its way to the Middle East and the Mediterranean well before 1300 and was warmly received.
Yet, when it finally reached the Americas in the 16th century, it was greeted with much suspicion. As a member of the nightshade family, it was suspected (like many other vegetables)
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