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By Patricia Greathouse
For The New MexicanSee the full content of this document
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Prickly Pear Taking Over World
Columbus introduced Europeans to New World bounty that would change the way they ate forever. American plants were so wholly accepted by the Old World that they came to sustain -- and represent -- whole cultures, like tomatoes in southern Italy and potatoes in Ireland. Other plants native to the Americas, like chocolate, tobacco, sunflowers, corn and certain beans, have found homes across the globe.
While the world has come to claim many of these culinary blessings as their own, the prickly pear has been less enthusiastically embraced. Ouch! The very thought illustrates the problem -- and nicknames like Big Bad P...See the full content of this document
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