The first Europeans to arrive in America, who didn’t know what the hell they were doing, learned this practie and this dish after arriving on these shores. They looked to the native Americans who had been living here for a while—like 20,000 years—and knew what they were doing.
They raised corn and planted beans near the corn; the corn became a trellis fo…
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