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Hi Carpo:
Very Tongue in cheek reply there on your part.

FWIW: The post by Nigel Wood on December 29, 1997 at 14:11:16: 
I've been reading of the travels of Ibn Battuta in Africa in the
1330s, which clearly predates Columbus's voyages. In the books
I've read is described a meal which included the following:
..."They cook banana before it is ripe in fresh milk and they
put it on a dish, and they put sour milk in a dish with pickled
lemon on it and bunches of pickled chillies, vineagared and
salted, and green ginger and mangoes."
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I doubt that Bananas reached Africa by then, (I wrote an article which
got published) for Tropical Fruit News Magazine in Florida a couple of
yrs ago and don't actually have the reference material on me but seem to
remember that it was much later..
As for Ginger and Mangoes they probably arrived in Africa long after
1330..
Millet would have been the common staple in Africa ..
Luke in Oz

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