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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