Home›Open QuestionsCategoryOpen Questions18 entries. Click any to see everything it connects to.BrowseCompareCompare At A Past YearEnter a year to compare these entries as the atlas records them at that moment. Leave it empty for the present. A year before the common era is entered with a minus sign, so 44 BCE is minus 44.Show This YearSelect all 18By what route did the chili pepper reach Hungary and become paprika?Open Questions2 linksDid agave distillation exist in Mesoamerica before Spanish contact?Open Questions2 linksDid biryani originate in the Mughal royal kitchens under Akbar, or did it reach the Deccan earlier via Persian-influenced travelers?Open Questions2 linksDid jerk seasoning and slow smoking originate with the Indigenous Taino, with Maroon communities of escaped enslaved Africans, or as a fusion of both?Open Questions2 linksDid vodka originate in Poland or in Russia?Open Questions2 linksDoes a wild ancestor of cultivated ginger survive, and where was it first domesticated?Open Questions2 linksHow far back does nixtamalization actually reach in Mesoamerica?Open Questions2 linksHow far does coffee drinking or cultivation in Ethiopia predate the earliest 15th-century documented evidence from Yemen?Open Questions2 linksIn what century, region or single tradition did street food culture (selling ready-to-eat food from stalls and shopfronts to city dwellers) first arise, if it arose in one place at all?Open Questions2 linksIn what specific century or decade did the mezze custom of serving small dishes with drink begin?Open Questions2 linksWas the coconut domesticated once, in the Indo-Pacific, or independently twice, in the Pacific and Indian Ocean basins?Open Questions2 linksWhen was distillation apparatus first turned specifically to drinkable alcohol, rather than perfumes, medicines or other substances?Open Questions2 linksWhere and when did kombucha originate?Open Questions2 linksWhich bartender and establishment actually invented the pina colada?Open Questions2 linksWhich country or people first prepared hummus as it is known today?Open Questions2 linksWhich culinary tradition, Byzantine and Greek, Arabic, or Central Asian Turkic, is baklava's true ancestor?Open Questions2 linksWhich Puebla convent, nun or friar first prepared mole poblano?Open Questions2 linksWho first combined fried fish and fried chipped potatoes into the dish now called fish and chips, and where?Open Questions2 links