What's left on your plate in 1491?
At about 2 a.m. on 12 October 1492, a lookout on the Pinta shouted “¡Tierra!”, and the world's dinner started to change. Pick any dish and send it back one year earlier, to before the Atlantic was crossed. Then see what sails home.
Pizza Margherita
Italy
Ingredients
Choose a dish to rewind
Which dishes does 1492 change most?
The share of each dish's ingredients that wouldn't have been there in 1491. Afro-Eurasian dishes lose their American crops; dishes from the Americas lose their Afro-Eurasian ones. Tap any bar to rewind it.
More to explore
Build your own plate
Make tonight's dinner (or your Thanksgiving table) from 111 ingredients and find out how much of it comes from the Americas.
Stowaway Hunt
Race the clock to spot the ingredients that hadn't crossed the ocean yet. Then try True or Tall Tale.
Ingredient Atlas
Where every ingredient was born, who domesticated it, and the 500-year timeline of the exchange.