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In a message dated 4/8/99 4:25:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> >We are told citrus is a big problem with many people, but considering how
> >long it's been such an important part of the Spanish diet, I wonder if
> others
> >of you tolerate it as well as I do.
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> My information is citrus fruits are from Asia. So I don't see how they
> would have been in the Spanish diet a long time.
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> For example limes are from north-east India and Malaysia. The shaddock
> originates from the islands of Polynesia in the South Pacific.
>
> Don.
>
Yes thats true, I was just reading about that in "Food in Antiquity" today,
when I wrote
long time, I didn't mean as far back as prehistory. I don't know what foods
were native
to Spain in prehistory, that's why I started with , Does anyone know where I
can find
out what foods were native to the Spanish region prehistorically.
Anna 8-)
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