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Where does Grapefruit come from?
The grapefruit is a chance cross of two Asian imports, the pomelo and the sweet orange. It was first described on Barbados in 1750 as the 'forbidden fruit' and only reached Florida in 1823.
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Jerk chicken
📍 Jamaica
Jerk meat is rubbed with allspice and fiery Scotch bonnet peppers, then slow-smoked over pimento wood. The method grew in Jamaica's hills, where Maroons, escaped Africans, blended it with the Taíno way of smoking meat.
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Lomo saltado
📍 Lima & the coast, Peru
Beef strips stir-fried in a wok with soy sauce, onion and tomato, served with both fries and rice: lomo saltado is a Peruvian favourite born in chifa, the cooking of Chinese immigrants who came to Peru from 1849.
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Paella
📍 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.
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Tap dance
📍 Eastern United States (New York to the South)
Tap dance grew up in the United States, where African American dance met Irish jigs and English clogs. A pioneer was William Henry Lane, "Master Juba", who grew up in New York's Five Points in the 1830s and grafted African American rhythms onto jig dancing.
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Pickleball
📍 Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
Pickleball was invented in 1965 as a children's backyard game on Bainbridge Island, Washington, cobbled together from a badminton court, table-tennis paddles and a perforated plastic ball.
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Igloo (the word)
📍 Canadian Arctic (Nunavut)
Igloo comes from iglu, the Inuit word for any house, not only one made of snow; English picked it up in the Canadian Arctic in 1824. It may be −45 °C outside, but body heat alone can warm a snow igloo to as much as 16 °C inside.