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Central and South America

Lying just below Mexico and spanning south across the equator for nearly 5,000 miles down to the tip of Antarctica, Central and South America make up the fourth largest land mass on the planet. Lush rainforests, high desert plateaus, fertile grasslands, rolling plains, and a list of superlatives that includes the world’s highest waterfall, largest river, and longest mountain range (the Andes) make this continent and its connecting Isthmus of Panama a geological superstar.This area is where many of our favorite foods originated, first cultivated in the pre-Columbian era by Peru’s sophisticated Quechua, or Inca civilization, and Mexico’s Mayan Indians. The list is long and colorful, including bananas, chocolate, corn, potatoes, sweet peppers, chile peppers, quinoa, cassava, vanilla, and tomatoes.

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Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies II

Reviewed on Dec. 4, 2008 by panajane

These cookies are more than the 12 listed, more like 18 when all is said and done. They expanded ALOT and thus became large and flat plus they didn't come out as chewy as I expected, very hard and brittle (which my boyfriend loves, but which I don't) but it could have been because I used lard and butter and next time I'll just use butter. I will try them again and they will hopefully be soft and chewy. The taste was good, albeit a bit greasy on the lips (again, it could have been the lard).

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