[Sca-cooks] Hazelnut a new world food?

[ranvaig at columbus.rr.com]

>Regarding nuts, I'm prepared to wager hazelnuts in some species or another
>are Old World.  I could well be mistaken (and often am), but I believe there
>is reference to hazel trees in Celtic mythology. If you've got the tree,
>you're going to have the nut.
>
>Could this be a case of a food being available on both sides of the
>Atlantic?

Yes, hazel nuts are both old and new world, I believe they are 
different species though.

Ranvaig