Currants are tiny, seedless, sweet, and nutritious grapes growing mostly on Greece's Peloponnese peninsula and the Lonian islands of Zante and Cephalonia. Corinth has been a port of origin for this specific variety of dried fruit for ages, and the name is most likely a corruption of 'Raisin de Corinthe.' Currants are no longer grown in North America because a fungus decimated nearly all currant-producing plants in the 19th century. As a result, they are not available fresh in these areas. The word gooseberry stems from a sweet and sour sauce made from these currants that the English used to serve with mackerel. It has been cultivated in Europe since the Middle Ages, and we know it was present in the gardens and on the table of King Louis XIV of France in the 16th century.