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Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court unanimously held that tomatoes should be classified as vegetables rather than fruits for purposes of tariffs, imports and customs.
While initially a crop of the Indian subcontinent, the cultivation of sugar in the New World had significant effects on Spanish society. New World sugar cultivation added to the growing power of the Spanish and Portuguese economies while also increasing the popularity of slave labor (which had severe impacts on African, American, and European societies).
A member of the European parliament from the Greek far-right Golden Dawn party, former army lieutenant general Eleftherios Synadinos has been expelled from a European Parliament plenary session after a racist remark, stating that "As it has been expressed in scientific literature, the Turks are dirty and polluted. Turks are like wild dogs when ...
Out-of-season tomatoes, often grown in large commercial greenhouses, are all but inedible to the sophisticated tomato-lover's palate. Until now, the reason why out-of-season greenhouse tomatoes ...
A video clip of an Indian vegetable seller who recounted the tough times he has had to face in fetching tomatoes to sell to eke out a living has gone viral on social media.. Prices of tomatoes in ...
This year's warm weather caused the plants to grow rapidly, according to MacArthur, making the contest's timing just right for his crop.
Food historian Lois Ellen Frank calls potatoes, tomatoes, corn, beans, squash, chili, cacao, and vanilla the "magic eight" ingredients that were found and used only in the Americas before 1492 and were taken via the Columbian Exchange back to the Old World, dramatically transforming the cuisine there. [17] [18] [19] According to Frank, [20]
The tomato woes plagued us from the start of the season