The Walnut: Once Known as the Royal Nut
By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer Walnuts regarded as the oldest tree-food appear to have originated in Persia from where they spread eastward and westward. In Mesopotamia, inscriptions from 2,000 B.C. have been found on clay tablets indicating the existence of walnut groves within the famed Hanging Gardens of Babylon and an inscription carved on … Continued
