Cut a finger lime open and out spill tiny juicy pearls that chefs call 'lime caviar'. This wild citrus grows in the coastal rainforests between Brisbane and the Clarence River in eastern Australia, in colours from green to pink and red.
📍 Junín plateau (Lake Junín), Peru
Maca, a turnip-like root now sold worldwide as a powder, grows at 4,000 metres, where frost and wind defeat most crops. Until the late 1980s it was farmed only around Lake Junín in central Peru, where it is still roasted in earth pits.
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📍 Southern Bolivia & NW Argentina
Peanuts were domesticated in South America, most likely in southern Bolivia or northwestern Argentina, where the most wild-like varieties still grow. The oldest known remains, about 7,600 years old, come from Peru.
📍 Valencia (Albufera lagoon), Spain
Paella is named after its pan: in Valencian, paella simply means 'frying pan'. The dish grew up among rice farmers around the Albufera lagoon near Valencia, and the classic version uses rabbit, chicken and beans rather than seafood.
📍 Yap & Palau, western Micronesia
Yap islanders carved limestone discs up to 3.6 m wide in Palau, about 400 km away, and brought them home by canoe. The stones rarely move: ownership passes by agreement, and one that sank at sea is still traded.
📍 Arnhem Land, Australia
Aboriginal peoples of northern Australia, probably in Arnhem Land, developed it centuries before Europeans arrived. The name 'didgeridoo' isn't Aboriginal; it's an imitative English word first printed in 1908.
📍 New Zealand
Mako is a Māori word from New Zealand for the shark or its tooth; Samoans say mago and Hawaiians manō. The shortfin mako is the fastest known shark and is famous for leaping high out of the water when hooked.