Ingredient Atlas
Where your food was born
Every ingredient in Plate 1491, traced to where it was first grown, raised or gathered, with the story of how it crossed the ocean. Jump to the timeline ↓
Ingredients
10,000 years in 19 stops
Timeline of the exchange
The crops came first, domesticated over thousands of years by farmers on both sides of the ocean. Then, in a single lifetime after 1492, they began swapping continents.