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  • Associate Professor of Geography, African Studies and Anthropology, Penn State
Collard greens − a staple of diets across the African diaspora. Bronwen Powell/Abderrahim Ouarghidi

How an unexpected observation, a 10th‑century recipe and an explorer’s encounter with a cabbage thief upend what we know about collard greens’ journey to the American South

Bronwen Powell, Penn State and Abderrahim Ouarghidi, Penn State

Collards may have arrived in southern Morocco via early Muslim traders, and Morocco may have been a stop in the journey the vegetables took to America.

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