Most of the food items which define modern North Indian and Subcontinental cooking have origins inside the Indian subcontinent though many foods that are now a part of them are based on fruits and vegetables that originated outside the Indian subcontinent.
Vegetable origins
Fruit origins
See also
References
Further reading
- "Domestication of plants in the Old World," Daniel Zohary and Maria Hopf, Oxford University Press, 2000.
- "History of Food," Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, Blackwell Publishing, 1994.
- "Culture and Cuisine: A Journey Through the History of Food," Jean François Revel, Doubleday, 1982.
- "The Agrarian History of England and Wales," Edward John T. Collins, Stuart Piggott, Joan Thirsk, Cambridge University Press, 1981.