jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) (09/06/85)
> Recent comments on PBS cooking shows, the net, and in cooking magazines, > lead me to have the impression that pine nuts are quite expensive these > days. > > Have they shot up in price over the past "n" years? Anybody have any > data as to why this happened? (For example, was their main source in > Lebanon, and the chaos and fighting there dried up the supply or > prevented shipping? Since they are used extensively in Lebanese cuisine, > I would not be surprised if this was the reason.) > > Regards, Will I have heard that pine nuts harvests are cyclical. That is, there is a bumper crop every four years. We are probably at the end of a four year cycle right now. Not all pine nuts come from the Middle East. A lot of them around here come from Arizona. -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) aka Swazoo Koolak {amdahl, sun}!rtech!jeff {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!jeff