Food and Drink Atlas
Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.
72 statements marked Debated.
Tacos al Pastor, Origin Period, To (Year)1960
Tacos al Pastor, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, To (Year)
Currently States 1960
Marks the 1960s, the decade sources agree the modern pineapple-and-pork tacos al pastor became a popular taqueria dish, though no more precise date is documented.
Source Al Pastor (Wikipedia)
Tapas Culture, Origin RegionSpain
Tapas Culture, Food Traditions
Standing
Concerns Origin Region
Currently States Spain
Real Academia de Gastronomia states the practice's origin is lost in legend (Alfonso X of Castile and the Andalusian tapar/covering-drinks story are the two commonly repeated but undocumented accounts). Following this atlas's own precedent on Salt: an unfixable date is refused, not invented, so origin-start-year and origin-end-year are left unset for this entity.
Source Tapa (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Tapas Culture, Origin Period, From (Year)1250
Tapas Culture, Food Traditions
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, From (Year)
Currently States 1250
The earliest date offered is a royal legend, not a documented practice: that King Alfonso X of Castile (1221-1284) began the custom of covering a wine glass with a small dish of food while recovering from illness. The custom as a widespread, named social practice is only well documented from the 18th and 19th centuries, so the two dates bracket a folk origin legend and a much later attested spread rather than one settled beginning.
Source Tapas (Wikipedia)
Tapas Culture, Origin Period, To (Year)1900
Tapas Culture, Food Traditions
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, To (Year)
Currently States 1900
Marks the point by which tapas had become a widely attested, named Spanish social custom rather than the isolated royal anecdotes of its legendary origin; see the origin-start-year note on this entity for the full range.
Source Tapas (Wikipedia)
Teff, Earliest Documented Use, From (Year)-4000
Teff, Ingredients
Standing
Concerns Earliest Documented Use, From (Year)
Currently States -4000
The source gives a range rather than a single point: cultivation is confirmed by at least 1000 BCE and possibly as far back as 4000 BCE.
Source Teff (Wikipedia)
Teff, Earliest Documented Use, To (Year)-1000
Teff, Ingredients
Standing
Concerns Earliest Documented Use, To (Year)
Currently States -1000
Closing, better-confirmed bound of the same range; see the start-year note.
Source Teff (Wikipedia)
Tom Yum, Origin Period, To (Year)1980
Tom Yum, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, To (Year)
Currently States 1980
Marks the 1980s emergence of tom yam nam khon, the creamy variation now common internationally; the plain clear-broth tom yam kung is older and already established by the Rattanakosin era.
Source Tom Yum (Wikipedia)
Vodka, Origin RegionPoland and Russia (Eastern Europe)
Vodka, Drinks
Standing
Concerns Origin Region
Currently States Poland and Russia (Eastern Europe)
Poland and Russia both claim to have invented vodka first; the dispute has been active enough to affect European Union geographic labeling rules.
Source Vodka (Wikipedia)
Wine, Origin Period, From (Year)-6000
Wine, Drinks
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, From (Year)
Currently States -6000
Competing archaeological claims from sites in present-day Georgia, Armenia and Iran each propose an earliest date for winemaking; the field has not settled on one, so a range spanning the credible claims is given rather than a single year.
Source The Oxford Companion to Food, Alan Davidson
Wine, Origin Period, To (Year)-4000
Wine, Drinks
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, To (Year)
Currently States -4000
Competing archaeological claims from sites in present-day Georgia, Armenia and Iran each propose an earliest date for winemaking; the field has not settled on one, so a range spanning the credible claims is given rather than a single year.
Source The Oxford Companion to Food, Alan Davidson
Wine, Origin RegionSouth Caucasus (Georgia); the Zagros Mountains of Iran are a rival early site specialists still weigh
Winemaking, Origin RegionThe South Caucasus (present-day Georgia), on current chemical evidence; the Zagros Mountains of Iran are a rival early candidate site specialists still weigh, the same tension already recorded on the Wine entity itself.