A Brief History of Empanadas. These pastries, filled with seafood, meat, cheese, vegetables or fruit are wildly popular throughout Latin and South America.Thought to have originated in Spain, where the Empanada Festival is part of Galician culture, the name comes from empanar, or to coat with bread.mpanadas are the traditional Latin version of the hot pocket (an American version). When I was growing up, my mom who is from Spain, and was living in South America, used to make a version with meat, raisins and olives.
Ireland has a wide range of crops, as agriculture is a major part of Ireland's economy. Various grains, like wheat and barley, are common. Many vegetables like potatoes, sprouts, cabbages, cauliflowers, carrots and turnips, amongst others, are very common.
By the 1840s, Ireland was so dependent on the potato that the proximate cause of the Great Famine was a potato disease. Maize and manioc, introduced by the Portuguese from South America in the 16th century, have replaced sorghum and millet as Africa's most important food crops.offee (introduced in the Americas circa 1720) from South America and sugar cane (introduced from South Asia) from the Spanish West Indies became the main export commodity crops of extensive Latin American plantations.