[Sca-cooks] peanuts

[Laura C. Minnick]

Barbara Nostrand wrote:
>
> Noble Cousins!
>
> I am confused by this talk of peanuts being discovered in the New
> World as I thought that peanuts like watermelons originated in Africa.

Sorry Solveig, to the best of my knowledge they are New World and were
in fact imported to Africa. There is a short description of this at:

http://www.aboutpeanuts.com/infohis.html

Interesting site, IMHO.

'Lainie