SC - New World Foods-rant

[Laura C. Minnick]

Couple small OOPS-

lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> turkey, beaver, raccoon, possum, bison (American buffalo), and other
> animals i'm not sure of - and there must be a whole lot of indigenous
> fish...

Beaver are new world. They are included in the Beastiaries (which are,
of course, In The Basement). We associate them with the New World
because of the beaver trade- but fact is, they had become endangered,
and that is why Europeans were so thrilled to discover a seemingly
inexhaustible supply in the New World.
 
> nuts such as pecans, Brazil nuts, Macadamia nuts (cashews are Asian,
> peanuts aren't nuts), hmmm, filberts?
 
I think hazelnuts are English, but I couldn't swear an oath on the
matter.

'Lainie