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From: mulbery@mot.UUCP (Bill Mulberry)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re:  pine nuts
Message-ID: <332@mot.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 19:50:33 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 19:50:33 1985
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Organization: Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ  85282
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     The trees that produce the pinon nuts (with an ~) are not
desert dwellers.  They live in higher elevations.  I believe at
5000 ft and above.  I have lived in the southwest for a long time
and have seen them more in abundance in areas like Northern
California, Oregon, and Northwestern Nevada than in Arizona, Utah,
and New Mexico.  It was (and may still be) one of the main foods
for the Indians that live in this area (Shoshone, Washo, and some
Ute groups).  It was only a secondary food source to the southwestern
Indians. 
     I have also found them to be alot cheaper in Oregon than in
the southwestern states.
     I have also seen them in high mountain areas in both northern
and southern Mexico but not in its deserts.

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