Talk:Turrón
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http://www.torrone.co.uk/history.html
On this link you can find a different origin to Torrone (which Spanish correspondent is Turrón), dating to the romans, with the first documented appearance a century before the one quoted here, in 1441, for a party in Cremona, Italy, which is the recognised Italian 'capital' of Torrone.
- I've seen differing claims about the etymology of this word. I've heard the wedding story, which would be a nice explanation, but it does sound suspiciously like a folk etymology.
- As for the Romans having torrone/nougat, please see my comments at talk:nougat#Nougat in Antiquity?. If you know of any other ancient evidence for this confectionery, I would love to hear it. --Iustinus 16:56, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed merge
I don't agree with the proposed merge to nougat. Turrón is a broader term. I've had turrones that would not qualify as nougat. - Jmabel | Talk 06:02, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Late 15th c Spanish citation
For what it's worth, the word "turron" appears in this sense in Nebrija's dictionary.
--Mariannep 17:59, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Copyedit
I've cleaned up a lot of the English in this article, which sadly has meant losing the Catalan/Valencian tone to a lot of it - in English you just won't see names like Alacant. And since the article is called Turron, I've changed a lot of the uses of the word turro. On the origin question, I can't help thinking that the current distribution of turron (+ Montelimar nougat) corresponds pretty darn closely to the map at the top of the Conquests of Hannibal article :-))) Given that almonds and honey are such characteristically Arab/Near East ingredients, my wishful imagination can't help but imagine that nougat was a Carthaginian invention, whose recipe was disseminated in the wake of the elephants to the region around New Carthage and elsewhere. The Romans might have assimilated it, but it was in the former Punic provinces where it really took hold. I've absolutely no evidence for this though :-)))) FlagSteward 15:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
