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food and to introduce many unknown drinks to the sicilians. above all, the arabs increased agricultural production: today we are accustomed to associating sicily as a goddess of the earth,with oranges and lemons, and the "conca d'oro" and "piana di catania" with the beauty of their green mantle of citrus
groves. but it was the arabs, as we have seen, who first introduced these products to sicily and because of them, the island still yields exquisite fruit, like the delicate peach or apricot, vegetables like asparagus; other crops like rice and sugar cane, cotton, the carob tree, the pistachio nut and...
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