Spanish omelette tortilla") to be eaten as a finger food. The first reference to the tortilla in Spanish is found in a Navarrese document, as an anonymous "Mousehole's memorial" addressed to the Navarra region's court in 1817. It explains the sparse conditions of Navarre's farmers in contrast with those in Pamplona (the capital) and la Ribera (in southern Navarre). After listing the sparse food eaten by highlanders, the next quote follows: "…two to three eggs in tortilla for 5 or 6 [people] as our women do know how to make it big and thick with less eggs, mixing potatoes, breadcrumbs or whatever."
World Vegetable Center at the World Vegetable Center. Indigenous vegetables are domesticated or semi-wild vegetable crops that are grown in particular regions as an integral part of a local food system. Many of them are underutilized crops, particularly in regions where they are not native. A collection of vegetable germplasm is kept at the World Vegetable Center, which is considered to have the "largest and most diverse collection...in the world.". The collection itself contains more than 60,000 accessions of 442 different species collected from 156 countries. AVGRIS, the AVRDC Vegetable Genetic Resources Information System, provides access to all the Center's data associated with