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"Theory has it that the walnut may have disappeared in parts of
northern Europe during the glacial period but was then reintroduced by
barbarian invaders and by Greco-Roman conquerors. Once the tree was
reestablished, the exploitation of its products spread steadily
through increasing trade."
Source: The Walnut Cookbook, Jean-Luc Toussaint
From California Walnuts site
http://www.walnuts.org/walnuts/wnt_history.asp
I've read also that the word origin "wal nut" is from a High German
word for "foreign" and used in New Amsterdam by the Dutch in
"Wallabout" where the Brooklyn Navy Yard was is today, a place of
foreigners, perhaps it was too crowded behind the "wall" that became
Wall Street. The "wall" was regulated at the "Water Gate" to open at
dawn and was closed at dusk, at the East River, nearby the ferry to
Brooklyn. The Puritan merchant Isaac Allerton, who crossed the
Atlantic on the Mayflower, set up a warehouse outside the gate and was
the center for all business conducted by the English in New Amsterdam.
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