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- From: Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com>
- To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Apricots from Afghanistan
- Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 09:49:06 -0700 (PDT)
This was at a great store, Patel Brothers, in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC. The importer is Diamond (USA) Inc. 718 938 0345. The 718 means the phone number is in Queens or Brooklyn, NYC. Email diamondusa03 at hotmail dot com. A 1-pound bad of organic fruit or nuts for $5.99 retail is a pretty good deal, although the package doesn't say who's certifying its organic claim. Also, as with many imported foods, the nutritional information on the package is just random numbers. I'm curious about the supply chain that brought these apricots from Afghanistan to here, but not enough to bother them with an email. Googling Afghanistan apricot reveals articles like this: www.sdc.org.af/ressources/resource_en_167768.pdf Which are interesting. Apparently, after apricots are picked for the fresh market, then they're sorted by grade. Then a highly-paid specialist packs all the different grades in the same box, taking care to put the nice ones on top and hide the bad ones underneath. Then they're shipped, paying various bribes along the way, and then they're unpacked and have to be sorted again to get rid of the bad ones from the center of the box. Oh, and to the person who has photos of fruit trees from a trip tp the Stans: I'm sure many of us would like to see those. Do you have them online somewhere? I really should be in my garden hauling rocks right now, but it's hot. Melissa --- On Thu, 5/7/09, jazzo874@aol.com <jazzo874@aol.com> wrote:
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[NAFEX] Apricots from Afghanistan,
Melissa Kacalanos, 05/07/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Apricots from Afghanistan,
Richard J. Ossolinski, 05/07/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Apricots from Afghanistan,
Lon J. Rombough, 05/07/2009
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[NAFEX] Wild fruit trees face extinction,
Hilborn . E, 05/07/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Wild fruit trees face extinction, jazzo874, 05/07/2009
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[NAFEX] Wild fruit trees face extinction,
Hilborn . E, 05/07/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Apricots from Afghanistan,
Lon J. Rombough, 05/07/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Apricots from Afghanistan,
jazzo874, 05/07/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Apricots from Afghanistan, Kieran &/or Donna, 05/08/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Apricots from Afghanistan,
Melissa Kacalanos, 05/08/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Apricots from Afghanistan, Betty Mayfield, 05/08/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Apricots from Afghanistan, Richard J. Ossolinski, 05/08/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Apricots from Afghanistan,
Richard J. Ossolinski, 05/07/2009
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