At a party last weekend, someone asked me why guacamole is called guacamole since it's basically smushed up avocado. (What can I say? I'm a cookbook editor; people tend to think I have answers to these kinds of things.) I didn't know (surprise! surprise!), but in looking into it I came across this: www.foodtimeline.org In addition to providing a wealth of information about avocados and guacamole, the site also provides answers to such deep, probing questions like when Oreos were invented and what, exactly, toad-in-the-hole is (a dish I won't be trying anytime soon).