Five Hundred Years Ago... When the Spanish navigators of the 15th century discovered the new world, they also discovered many marvels unheard of on the old continent. On their return from Mexico, they brought back with them many varieties of vegetable plants that people had never even imagined existed and talked of many others. Fruits and vegetables that had strange shapes and incredible tastes. Amongst them was the avocado, the "ahuacatl" of the Aztecs, a vegetable fruit that we are only just discovering...  (More) ...