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Monday, July 19, 2010

Picking up Walnuts in Tuscany






They say 'A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.' 

In the British Journal of Nutrition, a rodent study found a walnut rich diet reverses the effects of brain ageing.

But Clara's question is 'How do you pick up as many walnuts as G did?'  What are the secrets of filling up the bucket?......   Yes,  I know the basic stuff - like the walnuts fall off the tree - (helped sometimes by extension and shaking  of the human hand etc)  but next time I go to Tuscany, I want to win!! 

I also am aware of natural physics, such as that walnuts will roll down hill -  so look there first.  (I have a theory that G was told this and gathered all the good ones before I joined him in the exercise.)
Then you had to think laterally - like if they didn't roll downhill, perhaps they went sideways and settled in any depression or were caught by other foliage etc.

I spent happy times on my own picking up walnuts, enjoying just being there, then of course to enjoy 'Pasta with Walnut Pesto. Clara  
http://www.timeintuscany.com/

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  1. Renotta Thompson RRT DesignsJuly 19, 2010 at 3:56 AM

    I was just thinking about walnuts yesterday when I dyed an organic tee shirt a warm shade of brown, alas with a chemical dye. I thought how nice it would be to have a bucket of green walnut hulls to mix up a batch of nature's dye and have a truly organic tee shirt. Perhaps this fall when you visit we can do that. I have a great source for walnuts, well at least for the hulls.

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  2. Claire MitchellMarch 11, 2013 at 1:17 AM

    Hi Umbi
    I do remember cracking the walnuts which you always provide for your guests - but you're right - I most likely just popped them in my mouth. C

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