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Article: Since the dawn of civilization, almonds have nourished humanity.(almond recipe)
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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Food historians agree that almonds are among the oldest foods known to man. For centuries, they have been used for food and confectionary purposes and have been valued for their nutritional and medicinal qualities. Some historians indicate that almonds are native to China but more likely they originated in the Middle East. Subsequently, they have enhanced the human menu in most parts of the world.
Almond trees, referred to a number of times in the Bible, are the oldest and most widely grown of all the nut trees in the world. Pliny mentions almonds among the trees of ancient Egypt and they were known among the Greeks and Romans long before the Christian era. The ...