[Sca-cooks] hearts of palm

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

But, wait! There's more!

from http://www.greenpeace.org/~forests/forests_new/html/content/sol_amaz.html

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Palm Fruits and Palm Hearts. The fruits of the Acai Palm found in the
Amazon, are traditionally used to make a type of wine which is rich
in minerals. A single palm tree produces up to 20 kg of fruit per
year. The fruits produce a tasty, dark violet coloured wine which is
the most financially viable non-wood forest product from the Amazon's
delta. In 199,5 almost 106,000 tonnes of wine was produced at a value
of US$40 million.

Although the palm tree has to be felled in order to extract the palm
hearts, the relative ease of replanting the trees in the middle of
the forest and their rapid regeneration make this a far preferable
and sustainable alternative to large-scale logging. The biggest
importers of palm hearts from the Amazon are France, Canada, the
United States, Spain, Japan, Holland and Belgium.

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Anahita
Still trying to get to the HEART of the matter