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| The potato is not indigenous to Ireland. |
Just what you thought; almost all of our food comes from other places
in the world. Here
we find out that so many foods in the world are indigenous to somewhere else. I
mean, you knew that already – tomatoes are not from Italy, and so on. Consider
national identities via cuisine as similar to conceptions of self: you do not
exist; you are instead a combination of others. What does it mean for a food to
be Italian or Chinese. Ahh, to label and categorize.
Let us not forget that every atom in our little world was forged in a
massive stellar furnace and propagated throughout the universe in a
spacetime-crippling explosion. The very concepts of foreign, indigenous; of
self and other; are all constructions of our minds, and like a rainbow that
seems to get further away the closer we approach, they fall apart under
increasing scrutiny.
phys.org, June 2016
