SC - Re: .food riddle and query

[Joan Nicholson]

At 07:05 PM 12/9/1999 EST, you wrote:
>One 
>item he cited as added to the food group in historic times was coffee.  Our 
>dates on that vary, but most seem to be after the start of the Common Era.  
>However, he never told us the second food item that had entered man's 
>knowledge after prehistoric times.  has anyone got any ideas? 

Hmmm...possibly that wonderful contribution from the new world: cacao.
Don't think it's uses were discovered until well after pre-historic man.
Who and however discovered it...THANK YOU! ;-D

Prydwen



 
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inscription.  I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'"  Samuel Butler
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