SC - Catalan Cooking?

[Decker, Terry D.]

> Umm. ok. But for us uneducated folks, what areas in modern Europe do
> these Catalan and Neapolitan regions correspond to? If these two regions
> were mainly known as this in a particular time, when was it?
> 
>    Stefan
> 
Catalonia is NE Spain.  The Catalan capitol is Barcelona.

Neapolitan refers to Naples, Italy.

In both cases the terms represent cultures and ethnic identities which have
survived in the same general areas for over 2000 years. 

Bear