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With chocolate and other delicacies in the genomic crosshairs, it's tempting to imagine science-fictional scenarios for the future of flavor.

Half a millennium before Columbus' calamitous 1492 arrival in the Caribbean, DNA from the Americas may have infiltrated the European genome by way of a woman brought to Iceland by Vikings. Like the semimythical Pocahantas, her impact may have been far-reaching.