PEAS / ARVEJAS
PEAS / ARVEJAS
The Vegetable Garden, an encyclopedia of cultivated vegetable plants, published in France in the 1800's, devoted 50 pages to the varieties of cultivated peas. Some of those same varieties are still grown today, while many have been lost as well. During colonial times in Southern United States peas provided nutritious sustenance. Peas were probably among the first vegetables to be canned by a company that became a household name that remains familiar today. The Campbell Soup Company began canning peas in 1870. Canned peas turned up frequently as a familiar side dish on English as well as American dinner plates. |
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