I know I am side tracking, but cant help asking this question. Doesn't KUTHUMB mean family as in Father, Mother & children ? I think the right word for relatives would be soirim-dhairim (excuse my spellings pls). Correct me if I am wrong. Edward - Sorry M8, not trying to find fault with your konkani, but just trying to brush up my mother tongue. Secondly, was the poie baked (?) in salcette to ? As far as I can remember, we only had a boll (sweet bread made of coconut and flour) and a bakri. Blasio Chinchinim / DXB Message: 2 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:55:42 -0800 (PST) From: edward desilva <guirim...@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: [Goanet] What happened to the Great Goan Poie? To: goa...@goanet.org Message-ID: <497274.43139...@web24601.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 ?Reply:?That's what happens when 'women can't cut?tendli'. When I questioned my sister-in-law about the white poie,they ignored me, her girls gave me funny looks (none of them?can cook). Long live women who can't cut tendli.ED -------- --------------This shows a lack of knowledge about Goa. Bakers, known as poders, were predominantly if not exclusively male in Goa. Selma. ---------- Reply: What I was stressing was, women in Goa are ignorant of what goes in their bread. Just like cigarettes have 3000 chemicals in it, including formaldehyde (chemical used to preserve dead bodies). My KUTHUMB (relatives) in Goa did not know that the 'same' Poie flour, is now 'bleached'. - Why? Goans 'prefer' to marry fairer partners, and eat fairer Poie too. Do they also put Ammonia in it too and other preservatives in Goa? like they do in UK? - begs a question. ED.