The Grog I imagine this post has more in common then the You tube channels post
In no way Am I trying to police this topic just thought it is better suited there
(already posted though there)
(I guess in a way It is documenting the way a fruit might taste a documentary of fruit species flavors)
Forbidding Fruit: How America Got Turned On To The Date
(here is a sample, but not going to copypaste whole thing)
In 1898, the U.S. Department of Agriculture created a special department of men called Agriculture Explorers to travel the globe searching for new food crops to bring back for farmers to grow in the U.S.
“These agricultural explorers were kind of like the Indiana Joneses of the plant world,” says Sarah Seekatz, a California historian who grew up in the Coachella Valley, the date capital of the U.S.
These men introduced the country to exotic specimens like the mango, the avocado and new varieties of sweet, juicy oranges. But of all the exotic fruits brought, the story of the biblical date — and its marketing, cultivation and pollination — remains one of the most romantic of all.
David Fairchild, a botantist who helped found the Agricultural Explorer program, was one of the first to travel to Baghdad to investigate dates.
“He chose Baghdad,” says Seekatz, “in part, because he remembered One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, and … stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The book was a well-known childhood tradition for generations of Americans.”
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Edit I have a ton of these I need to find in my emails (from years back)
if your like me, and would rather me forward all of them in a email so some reading material later
I could probably look into making a list or forwarding what I already saved.