Hi Jean-Louis in America, ;-) you wrote: >Didn't you say that you couldn't eat fresh olives because they taste >too hot? Correct. I always eat them aged. But I found that my problems with frehs ones are decreasing and sometimes I hopefully will be able to eat them fresh from the tree. Jean-Louis: >My opininion is that, without all the processings like storing in a >jar, or drying (nuts...), many foods would be inedible or much less >attractive to us, and our diet would be completely different. Storing in a jar doesn't look much like processing to me. But if I had the opportunity to always get foods fresh from the tree/bush/etc. I also think my diet would be very different. Jean-Louis: >By the way, I once tried some hazelnuts which had just fallen from the >tree (in the street) and... I had to spit them out in emergency. Has it >happened to anyone of you? No. I remember one fall some years ago when I walked through a forest and found fresh hazelnuts. They tasted fine. Just more water content than older ones, that was all. They tasted more like a vegetable than like a fatty nut. Here in Europe nuts are in season and I collected walnuts from a big tree I know since three years. Since the nights before my scavenging- day were very cold (below freezing temperature) the nuts must have been frozen several times. It didn't affect their stop (it came very clear) and they digested well.=20 That wasn't much of a surprise for me since I already assumed that walnuts, hazelnuts and other local sorts survive freezing easily - else they wouldn't have spread here. Always raw regards, Stefan E-Mail: [log in to unmask]