Since I am unable to cook, I settled for a bag of popcorn for dinner. Placing the flattened bag in the microwave I could hear the popping of the kernels as it slowly grew. After removing the steamy bag from the microwave, I realized how far this popcorn had come. At one point it was a corn-cob, growing in a field along with thousands of others just like it. The butter on the popcorn had once been milk from a cow. Most of the ingredients were from the Columbian exchange. Corn came from the new world and was one of staple foods of the people there. Cow on the other hand, had come from the old world originally from Eurasia, but proved to be useful to the people of the Americas, providing them with milk and meat. What I learned from this LIFE CHANGING EPIPHANY was that without the Columbian exchange we would not have popcorn, and that is a world in which I would not want to live in.
- Rebecca Neish
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