[Sca-cooks] Re: Need help identify these items

[Diamond Randall]

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>Cypress is a "modern" evergreen, found on the
>California coast, although that does not guarantee
>that it wasn't imported, or isn't found elsewhere....
>is there a part of this plant, or perhaps another
>found on the Isle of Cypress which might be considered
>a common ingredient? Jadwiga? My herbal knowledge is
>fairly limited to American plants and common period
>spices

The cypress is the dominant evergreen of Italy and is not
a "modern" California discovery.  Wrong species.  All those tall
spikey trees you see all over Tuscany in travel pics are cypress
trees, many of which are hundreds of years old.
Akim

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