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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Pine nuts
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Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 13:52:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 13:52:07 1985
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Recent comments on PBS cooking shows, the net, and in cooking magazines,
lead me to have the impression that pine nuts are quite expensive these
days. I haven't bought any for well over a decade now, but, as I recall,
when I bought them then, from the Lebanese-Syrian Bakery which was then
in my neighborhood, they were not cheap, but were about equivalent to
buying other ordinary nut meats at the time.

Have they shot up in price over the past "n" years? Anybody have any
data as to why this happened? (For example, was their main source in
Lebanon, and the chaos and fighting there dried up the supply or
prevented shipping? Since they are used extensively in Lebanese cuisine,
I would not be surprised if this was the reason.)

Are there other sources under development? (I would assume that there
would be a long lead time for a pine nut plantation to come up to
productive capacity, since trees do take a while to mature.) Where?

Regards, Will

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