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Black pepper Demand for this flavoring set in motion the great voyages of discovery. | Sugarcane Its sweetness begat a shameful trade in human beings and the plantation system of agriculture. | Corn A New World cultivar--maize--took over the planet and is now an all-too-common ingredient in human and animal food products. | Rubber Its special properties forever changed the face of transportation, industry, and everyday life (even though synthetics are now in wide use). | Cotton Native to both Asia and the Americas, its seedpods yield a fiber that has clothed the entire world. |
Opium poppy Benefit and bane derive from its flowers, source of both morphine and heroin. | Tobacco Once regarded as a medical panacea, tobacco's highly addictive chemicals have hooked hundreds of millions over the centuries. | Potato This versatile and nutritious food plant originated in the Americas but beguiled the Irish; widespread blight led to mass starvation and flight—and emigration to America. | Coffee Roasted beans yield a beverage long at the center of urban social life, from the London coffeehouses of the 18th century, to the Parisian cafés of the 20th, to the Starbucks craze of the 21st. | Cacao Source of chocolate, from genus Theobroma, "food of the gods"--need we say more? |
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