Portal:Latin America/Did you know/Week 28, 2006

...that Guinea pigs are so important to Andean cuisine that a painting of the Last Supper in Cusco shows Jesus eating one?
...that both maize and potato, two of the top four most freshly-grown crops in the world, both originate from Latin America?
..that the first people to enjoy a hot chocolate may have been the Olmecs, in at least 400 BCE?
...that the fruitlets of a pineapple occur in Fibonacci sequence?
...that Quesadilla fillings usually include cheese, whereas taco fillings generally include meat products?
...that Sopa de Mondongo is a traditional dish in Nicaragua containing tripe?

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