By Rafael Cox Eat It You were in the streets. You were starving and you saw a food stand, you bought the yummiest looking food on the menu. You said to the cook, “I would like corn on the cob.” You took one bite and you were in love. You said that corn on the cob was the best thing that ever happened to you, and you were right. History Corn was an essential to Native American culture. In fact, Native Americans created corn using selective breeding corn’s ancestor, a wild grass called teosinte. The natives grew corn with squashes and beans which was the optimal growing condition for all of those plants, they were called the Three Sisters. Native Americans might be better farmers than modern ones, wow.

By Layla Kumar Top 5 Fun facts: The first apple pie recipe was printed more than 630 years ago in England and popularized there! Early apple pies were very expensive, it cost too much to put sugar in them! About 16% of pies eaten are apple (there are a lot…

By Jeremiah Cantrell The croissant was created by August Zang sometime around 1838 or 1839. Marie Antoinette, queen of France popularized the croissant when she wanted her favorite dish from her homeland in Austria. Croissants are not hard to make, they just take a long time to make because they are made with a dough called laminated dough which has 1000 layers. In my opinion, American food is food that came from other countries. Foods like burgers or french fries came from other countries. So, next time when you eat a croissant, think about how much it went through to come to America.

By Dylan Mendez The person who created the hot dog was Harry Mosley Stevens. Hot dogs were invented in 1484. Hot dogs are originally made in Coney Island. Hot dogs are made of only three ingredients: beef trimmings, salt, and seasonings.

By Ayana Alamgir Chocolate chip cookies were born by mistake! Ruth Wakefield was the inventor. One day, while baking a batch of Butter Drop Do cookies, she added chopped up chunks of a semi sweet chocolate bar. She thought it would create solid chocolate cookies. But that didn’t go as planned, and a star was born! A chocolate chip cookie! The chocolate chip cookie, originally called the “Toll House Crunch Cookie”, recipe was published in a Boston newspaper and quickly became one of America’s favorites. When you bite into a chocolate chip cookie, it’s chewy and doughy with semi sweet chocolate chunks that stick to your teeth that washes down perfectly with a crystal clear glass of milk. Yum!

By Rafael Cox First, the plants get harvested and are put in a truck. They are mostly from Mexico and California. Avocados were found 10,000 years ago in Mexico and Guatemala. Then, they are checked to see if they can be eaten. Avocado’s big seeds made it so that only…

By Melannie Zumba About The place that grows 34,000 acres each summer is California. Strawberries grow the most in the summer and strawberries are a type of rose. Strawberries have more Vitamin C than oranges! Americans eat 8 pounds of strawberries a year. National strawberry day is celebrated on May…

By Jett Clark Lychee comes from and is grown in the southeast region of China or southern Taiwan. They grow on tropical evergreen trees. In four to five years, tree will produce a small amount of fruit. …

By Jeremiah Cantrell Granny Smith apples are also known as green apples. There are 900 million apples made in the world and 100 million apples made in Washington State. It takes 3–5 years to grow a Granny Smith apple. Apple seeds are poisonous to pets. The most common problem with apple trees is fire blight.