Onion

:For the parody newspaper, see The Onion.

History

Onions are one of the earliest crops mentioned in written text, in the Bible's Book of Numbers (11:5) as part of the Egyptian diet of that time. Six types of onions were known at the time of Pliny the Elder's Natural History.

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Bible - Book of Numbers - Pliny the Elder - Natural History

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It is thought that bulbs from the onion family have been utilised as a food source for millennia. In Palestinian Bronze Age settlements, traces of onion remains were found alongside fig and date stones dating back to 5000 BC. It would be pure conjecture to suggest these were cultivated onions. The archaeological and literary evidence suggests cultivation probably took place around two thousand years later in ancient Egypt. This happened alongside the cultivation of leeks and garlic and it is thought that workers who built the pyramids were fed radishes and onions.http://www.selfsufficientish.com/onion.htm

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Fig - Date - 5000 BC - Leek - Garlic - Radish

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