Re: Pignolias?

> They are so expensive to buy...

   Interesting questions, but the short answer is that indigenous and 
third-world people who have nothing better to do with their time than lay
up stores against starvation - not, of course, that one can fault them for
doing so - prize many foodstuffs most of us would not (at best) consider
worth the trouble.
   (and in the American West at least, as I understand, these were very
often "gathered" by raiding the winter stores of wild mice, etc. Which then
presumably starved unless they were themselves eaten or else managed to
spread plague, hantavirus etc. to their human commensals. Is that the word
I want? I suspect not.)

   The long answer is that there's probably no pine-nut recipe - it was a
pesto thread on another list some years back that originally fanned this
minor flame, btw - which won't be improved by the substitution of common
English walnuts.
   Which can be harvested easily and cheaply enough off the shelf at one's
local discount grocery, and which actually have some flavor, not to mention
(I believe, but am open to correction) superior nutritional value.

   bk---

indigenous man to Christian Man, far from Home and Family on Thanksgiving
as he considers the disgusting repast before him:  "I know what you are
thinking. The grubs in my village are better, too."
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