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From: rew@cbosgd.UUCP (Bob Warren)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Saffron
Message-ID: <1349@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 16:45:39 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 16:45:39 1985
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Oh
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Summary: The Marco Polo/Saffron Connection

> > 	For your information, most true saffron comes from Spain

A lot of saffron used to come from Italy, in particular the area
on the mainland near Venice.  If my sources can be believed, the
Polo family fortune was based on saffron prior to Marco's journey
to China and back.

Bob Warren
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