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At MyGourmetConnection.com, food piques our interest. For curious foodies like ourselves, we've had the pleasure of compiling all sorts of tasty tidbits and little-known facts about food and dining. Check back with our "Food Trivia" section regularly for a fascinating new dose of food info.
The sweet onion known as the Vidalia can only be grown in a select number of counties in the state of Georgia. In the early 1930's farmer Mose Coleman realized that the onions he was growing on his Georgia farm were wonderfully sweet.
Difficult as it was, he managed to sell the concept of a premium onion and was able to command a higher price for his crops.
What would happen to the world's food supply if natural or manmade disasters wiped out crops across the globe?
Luckily for us, the Global Crop Diversity Trust is one step ahead of the rest - the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened in February 2008 with upwards of 100 million seeds (268,000 distinct samples) from more than 100 countries.
Contrary to modern traditions, the pilgrims' very first feast lacked some of the foods that we've come to consider Thanksgiving staples.
Kathleen Curtin, Food Historian at Plimoth Plantation gives us a look at what the pilgrims might have had at the first Thanksgiving table.
Read on to see more realistic menu...
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