NLT Genesis 4:2-5
When they grew up, Abel became a shepherd, while Cain cultivated the ground. 3 When it was time for the harvest, Cain presented some of his crops as a gift to the Lord. 4 Abel also brought a gift—the best portions of the firstborn lambs from his flock. The Lord accepted Abel and his gift, 5 but he did not accept Cain and his gift.Why is this passage ponderable?
Depending on how you interpret Old Testament scripture, you may come away from this passage wondering if Cain was the very first Vegan. Why else would he think that God would appreciate his gift of vegetables? The disappointment he showed when God looked with favor on Abel's gift of lamb chops and ignored his gift set off what might have been the very first temper tantrum.
Veganism is a type of vegetarian diet that excludes meat, eggs, dairy products, and all other animal-derived ingredients. Many vegans also do not even eat foods that are processed using animal products like lard and butter.
The oldest known vegetable, the Pea, was found in Stone Age settlements dating to 8,000 to 10,000 years ago.
Carrots
History of carrots spans the last five thousand years and tells the
incredible tale of its domestication in the fields of ancient Iran and
Afghanistan, expansion to the Egypt and China, popularity in medieval
Europe and finally, birth of the common orange carrot in the scientific
circles of 17th century Netherlands.
Cucumbers
Cucumber is a popular cultivated plant in the gourd family
Cucurbitaceae that managed to captivate our attention from the moment it
appeared in ancient India. Since that pivotal moment over 4000 years
ago, cucumber was spread beyond Indian borders, moved through Ancient
Greece, Rome, Europe, New World, China, and eventually becoming fourth
most widely cultivate vegetable in the world
Garlic
Garlic is one of the oldest known food flavouring and seasoning
plant that managed to infuse itself into culinary tradition of many
civilisations across the world. It started its journey in central Asia,
domesticated during Neolithic times, spread to the Middle East and
northern Africa in 3000 BC, which quickly enabled it to reach Europe
Onions
Onions are one of the oldest cultivated vegetables in our history,
originating in central Asia from where it spread across entire world.
Modern archaeologists, botanists and historians are unable to determine
exact time and place of their first cultivation (because this vegetable
is perishable and its cultivation leaves little to no trace), however
some written records enables us to paint a very interesting picture
about its origins.
Beans
Bean is one of the earliest cultivated plants. The oldest findings
and proofs that we used beans for food are 9,000 years old and were
found in Thailand. Wild variants of broad beans (fava beans) were
gathered in Afghanistan and the Himalayan foothills. Beans were also
found in the tombs of the kings of the ancient Egypt where they were
left as the food for the departed and their souls in the afterlife. The
first cultivated beans appeared 4,000 years ago in the Aegean, Iberia,
and transalpine Europe and they were large-seeded broad beans. From the
about the same time date beans found in Guitarrero Cave, an
archaeological site in Peru which proves that beans appeared practically
everywhere and where one of the staple foods of the early peoples. When
the first colonists arrived at the New World, Native Americans taught
them to grow beans with corn so the bean plants can climb the
cornstalks.
Spinach
Spinach was a highly regarded vegetable since the earliest days by
all that grew and consumed it. Today we have cultivated variants that
give more leaves, are tastier and are a good source of vitamins and
minerals.
Beetroot
Oldest archeological proofs that we used beetroot in ancient times
were found on the Neolithic site of Aartswoud in the Netherlands and in
Saqqara pyramid at Thebes, Egypt, which dates from the time of the Third
Dynasty (third millennium BC).
Artichokes
Varieties of artichokes have records of use as a food among the
ancient Greeks and Romans. Artichoke can be, at the first glance, a
strange choice of food because it is a flower but we have been eating
them for thousands of years. It can be prepared in many interesting
variants.