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Message: of chestnuts & chickpeas
Author: Zilach Velathris - tanaquil Lupus 
Date: Dec 5, 2000 17:04
      We really should have a category for Etruscan Landscapes, but since we 
      don't... 

      I sat under a chestnut tree in Etruria, eating my lunch, and wondered-- 
      Did the Etruscans have chestnuts?  Seems likely to me.  And if they did, 
      what did they do with them?  Was it perhaps the basis for their "polenta"? 
       Something like castagnaccio, perhaps? 

      I should explain: I'm a member of The American Chestnut Foundation, which 
      is attempting to bring back a nearly extinct tree, decimated by blight. 

      The other thing is, I was with a group digging not far from the Cecina 
      River.  Hmm, I thought: Chickpea River?  Nope, it was named for a guy 
      called (Caecinia or somesuch?).  However, did his name perhaps have 
      anything to do with chickpeas?   And did the Etruscans eat chickpeas?  








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