Enjoy a meal that features some of the most famous and lasting dishes ever created. This meal also teaches you how we've evolved as a species along with these important staple crops.
Your depth of appreciation of food will never be the same, as you learn about our very origins.
1) Wheat: Our Housemade Sesame Levain
Served with our Seitan Summer Sausage, and Aged Cheese
Bay Leaf and Olive Oil White Bean Hummus
(the staff of life, the oldest known food, Origin: Fertile Crescent)
2) Potato: Causa Rellena
Aji Amarillo Cheese Sauce, Cured Olives, Tomato, Avocado
(potatoes nutritional density in a small plot of land makes populations thrive, Origin: Peru)
3) Rice: Roasted Lions Mane, Scallion, and Ginger Congee
Served with Matsutake Shoyu, Tare, and Shichimi Togarashi
(Primary energy source for half the people in the world, Origin: China)
(Soybeans are 5th largest crop where rice is the 2nd)
4) Maize: Spiced Pumpkin and Huitlacoche Tamales
Served with Rancho Gordo Ayocoto Morado Heirloom Beans, Charred Nopales, Whipped Cashew Sour Cream
(How nixtamalization unlocks the nutrients in the corn, creating a flourishing Meso-American cuisine. Origin: Mexico)
(Maize is the #1 crop in the world)
5) Sweet Potato: Sweet Potato Pie.
Just a damn good sweet potato pie.
Origin: South America
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