Nutsedges: Important Crops or Important Weeds?<BR>Purple nutsedge tubers were a staple in a late-Paleolithic (~16,000 B.C.) in Egypt.
<BR>Egyptian tombs dating to the 15th Century B.C. have been found to have recipes for ground tiger nuts (aka nutsedge tubers) mixed with honey.
<BR>Theophrastus (d. 287 B.C.): Egyptians boiled yellow nutsedge tubers in beer<BR>Negbi 1992<BR>