We grew up in a small Southern California town where avocados covered the hillsides. When we went East for college in the 80s, we couldn’t find good avocados anywhere. Now Americans eat close to three billion a year, and the avocado has become a familiar sight across the globe. What sparked the world’s most spectacular superfood phenomenon?
To satisfy our curiosity, we did a little research and were surprised to uncover all the elements of an epic: greed, passion, adventure, friendship, and war.
