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How an unexpected observation, a 10th-century recipe and an explorer’s encounter with a cabbage thief upend what we know about collard greens’ journey to the American South

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Collard greens are a quintessential part of African American , Southern and “soul” foods in the U.S. The leafy vegetable is important in some regions of Africa , such as Kenya , where they are one of the most commonly consumed vegetables.

Authors: Collards came to the Americas early in the 16th century with Spanish , Portuguese or English Europeans , introduced collards as a garden plant.

Bronwen Powell and Abderrahim Ouarghidi: Collards in Moroccan oases may have been a stop in the journey collards took to America .

The similarity in recipes from Morocco and the American South suggests that Moroccan .

recipes are strikingly similar to those from Morocco , 10th-century Baghdad .

The story of collards in Morocco is an opportunity to consider the ways the transatlantic trade.

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