Gumbo is a melting pot in a bowl: a southern Louisiana stew mixing a French roux, the Choctaw thickener filé (ground sassafras leaves) and okra, whose African name, ngombo, gave the dish its own. It was first described in 1802.
📍 Adria (Veneto), Italy
Ciabatta seems age-old, but a baker in Adria, near Venice, created it only in 1982, as an Italian answer to the French baguettes that were taking over sandwich bars. Its name means 'slipper'.
📍 London (the Savoy), England
French chef Auguste Escoffier created Peach Melba at London's Savoy Hotel in 1892 or 1893 to honour Australian soprano Nellie Melba, then starring at Covent Garden.
📍 Queensland–New South Wales border, Australia
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.
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📍 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.
📍 Caribbean (Taíno)
'Hurricane' is a Caribbean word: Spanish explorers borrowed huracán from the Taíno, an Arawakan-speaking people of the West Indies, and English took it from Spanish in the 1550s.
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📍 Southern Mexico & Guatemala
The Swiss cheese plant grows wild only in the rainforests of southern Mexico and Guatemala. Its name 'deliciosa' means delicious: the ripe fruit is edible.