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green bean

Every part of that sentence is a decision somebody made.

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Cultural layer

Origin

Mesoamerica and the Andes; Phaseolus vulgaris, the same species as the dry common bean, eaten young in the pod

Routes

Carried to Europe after 1492 and bred for pods rather than seeds; now grown for European supermarkets on irrigated farms in Kenya, Morocco and Egypt

Context

Green beans on a British shelf in January were grown in Kenya, air-freighted, and irrigated in a water-stressed country to meet a demand for an out-of-season vegetable. The bean is Mesoamerican, the farm is East African, the water is local and scarce, and the supermarket calls it fine beans. Every part of that sentence is a decision somebody made.

Behind this layer

Diccionario Enciclopédico de la Gastronomía Mexicana (Ricardo Muñoz Zurita, 2012)

Route

Pending

The routes are written. They are not yet mapped.

This entry's cultural layer already names where it came from and how it moved. What it does not yet carry is that movement as structure: ordered waypoints with real coordinates, and a mechanism on each leg. Until it does, the layer stays an empty slot rather than a drawn line, because a map built from prose would be a guess with a projection under it.

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