Editing Guacamole (section)

== History ==
Avocado seeds were first found in the Tehuacan Valley of [[Mexico]] around 9,000–10,000 years ago (7000–8000 BCE) and had been domesticated by various Mesoamerican groups by 5000 BCE.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ucavo.ucr.edu/General/HistoryName.html |title=What's in a name? |publisher=University of California |access-date=March 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Tracing the Geographic Origins of Major Avocado Cultivars |journal=Journal of Heredity |volume=100 |issue=1 |pages=56–65 |doi=10.1093/jhered/esn068 |pmid=18779226 |year=2008 |last1=Chen |first1=H. |last2=Morrell |first2=P. L. |last3=Ashworth |first3=V. E. T. M. |last4=de la Cruz |first4=M. |last5=Clegg |first5=M. T. |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Harvard">{{Cite journal |author1=Galindo-Tovar, María Elena |author2=Arzate-Fernández, Amaury M. |author3=Ogata-Aguilar, Nisao |author4=Landero-Torres, Ivonne |name-list-style=amp |year=2007 |title=The avocado (''Persea americana'', Lauraceae) crop in Mesoamerica: 10,000 years of history |journal=Harvard Papers in Botany |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=325–334, page 325 |url=http://www.uv.mx/personal/megalindo/files/2010/07/GalindoTovar_325_334_V21.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151010145152/http://www.uv.mx/personal/megalindo/files/2010/07/GalindoTovar_325_334_V21.pdf |archive-date=October 10, 2015 |url-status=live |doi=10.3100/1043-4534(2007)12[325:TAPALC]2.0.CO;2 |jstor=41761865|s2cid=9998040 }}</ref> They were likely cultivated in the Supe Valley in Peru as early as 3100 BCE.<ref name="Harvard"/> In the early 1900s, avocados frequently went by the name ''alligator pear''.<ref name="morton">{{Cite book|url=https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/avocado_ars.html |title=Avocado; In: Fruits of Warm Climates |author=Morton JF |pages=91–102 |publisher=Creative Resource Systems, Inc., Winterville, NC and Center for New Crops & Plant Products, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |year=1987 |isbn=978-0-9610184-1-2}}</ref>  In the 1697 book, ''A New Voyage Round the World'', the first known description of a guacamole recipe (though not known by that name) was by English privateer and naturalist [[William Dampier]], who in his visit to Central America during one of his circumnavigations, noted a native preparation made of grinding together avocados, sugar, and lime juice.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fater |first1=Luke |title=The Pirate Who Penned the First English-Language Guacamole Recipe |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-food-writer |website=[[Atlas Obscura]] |publisher=Atlas Obscura |access-date=2 February 2021 |date=26 July 2019}}</ref>

Guacamole has increased avocado sales in the U.S., especially on [[Super Bowl Sunday]] and [[Cinco de Mayo]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Charles |first=Jeffrey |editor1-last=Belasco |editor1-first=Warren |editor2-last=Scranton |editor2-first=Philip |title=Food nations: selling taste in consumer societies |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p9wPoDHQR-IC |access-date=September 20, 2011 |year=2002 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-93077-2 |pages=131–154 |chapter=8. Searching for gold in Guacamole: California growers market the avocado, 1910–1994}}</ref> The rising consumption of guacamole is most likely due to the U.S. government lifting a ban on avocado imports in the 1990s and the growth of the U.S. Latino population.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/the-selling-of-the-avocado/385047/ |title=The Selling of the Avocado |last=Khazan |first=Olga |access-date=September 28, 2016|date=2015-01-31 |magazine=The Atlantic}}</ref>