Day: 23 January 2010

Mandarins, tangerines, clementines

January 23, 2010 No Comments

Originally published in Journal de Montréal on January 23, 2010. First came the mandarin orange (more commonly known to us as the tangerine); its tree was cultivated for many centuries in China. No doubt, its French name derives from mandarins, who were powerful Chinese bureaucrats.

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