SC - Re: Pine Nut Confection -- One Last Time
Reia M. Chmielowski
kareina at eagle.ptialaska.net
Tue Jan 5 18:25:38 PST 1999
At 15:13 1/5/99 , you wrote:
>Limes were cultivated in the Indus Valley about 4000 BC and in China around
>700. So the question is, when did they get to Europe? Unfortunately, I
>don't have any other sources handy to cross reference.
According to _The Visual Food Encyclopedia_ published by Macmillan USA 1996
ISBN 0 -02-861006-7
"The lime tree was brought to France and Italy by the Crusaders in the 13th
Century." It doesn't happen to cite its source, but then encyclopedias
often don't within articles...
- --Kareina
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