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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Field Notes: The Botany Of Thanksgiving
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:39
	Publish Date:		2019-11-12 04:40:00
	Description:		Botany of Thanksgiving Everyone has their own list of things to be grateful for at Thanksgiving. Along with your thoughts of turkey and football, take a minute to appreciate the plants, yes, the plants, that originated in the Americas, that add flavor, color and nutrition to your Thanksgiving table. T hese plants include corn, beans, squashes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and cranberries. You might not realize that these plants are all New World species, that is, they originated in the Western Hemisphere. Many of our foodstuffs, such as wheat, barley and chick peas were domesticated from plants found growing in the Fertile Crescent, an area touching the modern countries of Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, eastern Turkey, western Iran, and northern Iraq. But most of our traditional Thanksgiving side dishes were domesticated here in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in Central or South America. So, these dishes are uniquely American, and I mean American in the broadest sense, from North,
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