Sugar snap peas
Most vegetable varieties have ancient pedigrees. Pumpkins were domesticated in Central America around 9,000 years ago. Egyptian frescoes from 3000 BCE depict lettuces and onions. The sugar snap pea is the youngest vegetable we grow; a baby at just 50 years old.
Sugar snap peas’ roots are ancient, however. We know that wild peas, native to the eastern Mediterranean, were foraged from nature since Neolithic
