RWO wrote:

> Hi Kate,
>
> I wondered about that, too, but sources I read indicated that there
> didn't seem to be any significant almond production in Egypt itself
> before the Romans, despite the usual hyperbole you find on the 'Net,
> and there doesn't seem to have been much in the past few hundred
> years, either. They seem in Ancient Egyptian times to have largely
> been an imported luxury for the very rich. Currently the economy in
> the Abu Qir area, (which is now a suburb of Alexandria) appears to
> centre on seafood fishing, fertilizer production, and gas wells.

Huh! Progress! Stinks, doesn't it! I'll look into the almond
growing history later, when I have more time.
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