Food

History development of food

By Hynkut
  • 1480

    Rice

    Rice
    The average amount of rice cultivated every year ranges between 800 billion and 950 billion pounds. Muslims brought rice to Sicily in the 9th century.
  • 1500

    Rice

    Rice
    After the 15th century, rice spread throughout Italy and then France, later spreading to all the continents during the age of European exploration.
  • 1556

    Sea trade

    Sea trade
    The Portuguese and Spanish Empires opened up sea trade routes that linked food exchange across the world. Under Phillip II, Catholic cuisine elements inadvertently helped transform the cuisine of the Americas, Buddhists, Hindus, and Islamic cuisines of the South Eastern Asian region. In Goa, the Portuguese were encouraged by the Crown to marry local women following their conversion.
  • 1570

    potato

    potato
    The potato was first domesticated in the region of modern-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia[1] between 8000 and 5000 BC.

  • Grane and livestock

    Grane and livestock
    Grain and livestock have long been the most important agricultural products in France and England

  • Sugar

    Sugar
    Sugar began as an upper-class luxury product, but by 1700 Caribbean sugar plantations worked by African slaves had expanded production, and it was much more widely available.

  • Sugar for working-class

    Sugar for working-class
    By 1800 sugar was a staple of working-class diets. For them, it symbolized increasing economic freedom and status.

  • Plant disease

    Plant disease
    In 1845, a plant disease known as late blight, caused by the fungus-like oomycete Phytophthora infestans, spread rapidly through the poorer communities of western Ireland as well as parts of the Scottish Highlands, resulting in the crop failures that led to the Great Irish Famine.

  • West European diet

    By 1870 the West European diet was at about 16 kilos per person per year of meat, rising to 50 kilos by 1914, and 77 kilos in 2010.

  • Fruit

    Fruit
    The 1920s saw the introduction of new foodstuffs, especially fruit, transported from around the globe. After the World War many new food products became available to the typical household, with branded foods advertised for their convenience.

  • Potatoes

    Currently China is the largest potato producing country followed by India as of 2017,FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.