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Scholastique Mukasonga, Jordan Stump: The Barefoot Woman (Paperback, 2018, Archipelago) 4 stars

I was greatly surprised when I heard sweet potatoes, corn, and beans had come to us from America. What roads had those plants taken to get all the way to Rwanda? I never heard an answer.

The Barefoot Woman by , (Page 40)

Something I've often puzzled over, the plants that dominate diets around the world that had origins in the American continent. I like how this question was asked as "what roads had those plants taken?"