What comes from Luxembourg??????

Using the internet I started researching the origins of fruit, vegetables and other foodstuffs. This turned out to be incredibly confusing.... At first it went well and I started my list with North American vegetables, but then it turned out that they may also have originated in South America, and that would be a group of totally different countries! There was more and more contradicting information and I started to get frustrated! I wanted to find the REALLY British, Indian, Finnish etc...I wanted the soup to be AUTHENTIC! Time was running and I was spinning in circles. I asked a few friends for help

Richard:

...I guess nation states are much younger than most vegetables, or the world had different borders.....

Rutabagas

Rutabagas were an important nutritional source for many Finno-Ugric tribes before the introduction of potatoes. Some claim the vegetable is native to Sweden, but others think it was introduced to Sweden, possibly from Finland or Siberia, in the early 17th century. From Sweden, it reached Scotland, and from there it spread to the rest of Great Britain and to North America.

The first known printed reference to the rutabaga comes from the Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin in 1620, where he notes that it was growing wild in Sweden. It is often considered to have originated from Scandinavia orRussia.

Brassica oleracea

The ancestral cabbage, Brassica oleracea, was cultivated around 8,000 years ago in the coastal areas of northern Europe. All of the common ‘cabbage’ forms of this family that we eat e.g. cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kales etc are forms of one species alone – Brassica oleracea; humans have simply selected, developed and cultivated different forms. Our large headed cabbages are thought to have originated in Germany, and were certainly around by the 12th Century.

sprouting brocoli

The first selection of sprouting broccoli was probably made in Greece and Italy in the pre-Christian era.

brussel sprouts

The earliest records for Brussels sprouts are from Belgium in the 18th century, making these the last major form of the crop to be developed

Garbanzo beans

come from Southern Europe (Spain), and have poisonous foliage. -but garbanzo is the spanish variety of the chickpea which was found in italy in the bronze age and In southern France Mesolithic layers in a cave at L'Abeurador, Aude have yielded wild chickpeas carbon dated to 6790±90 BCE.

Legumes

have been significant crops in Korean history and cuisine according to earliest preserved legumes found in archaeological sites in Korea.The excavation at Okbang site, Jinju, South Gyeongsang province indicates that soybeans were cultivated as a food crop in ca. 1000–900 BCE.

Cultivations of azuki beans date back to ancient times according to an excavation from Odong-ri, Hoeryong, North Hamgyong province which is assumed to be that of Mumun period (approximately 1500-300 BCE) (Korea)

But where am I going to find Azuki Beans or Legumes? Bella, who recently traveled to South Korea, gave me tea, that is believed to be authentic Korean tea. And if Brussels were native to Brussel would it be fine to include them as a vegetable from the Luxembourg? After all, they are neighboring countries and the boarders have certainly changed.

I was letting proximation into my research.