Me too would like to thank Dineshji for his good introduction. He has rightly excluded Spices. Can it be possible to have one episode on Spices? Regards Nalini
----- Original Message ----- From: Gurcharan Singh To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 8:50 AM Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:57851] ... FRUITS and VEGETABLES Congrats Dinesh ji Very well presented introduction. A good stepping stone for Fruits and vegetables week. I would suggest that members posting photographs of fruits and vegetables during the week should prefix Fruits & Vegetables in the subject line and always add words that make it a unique post, not mixing up with other threads. -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: Dear friends, In line with focusing on particular subject of flora, the next month will concentrate on FRUITS and VEGETABLES. And, the Monday of the focus week starts almost bang with the start of the New Year 2011 (assuming that most of us will enjoy the extended celebrations of the Christmas and New Year vacation). Earlier episodes dealt with single family of flora; this would cover any (or many) families of flora. Hopefully, we all know our FRUITS and VEGETABLES ... it is as easy as a child non-scientifically deciding to differentiate between the two. Though both of these would be the edible parts of a plant, we would end up deciding the "sweet" part(s) of the plant to be FRUITS, and all other appetitive tasting to be VEGETABLES. Scientifically, our usual understanding may get straightened and find that some of the VEGETABLES are in fact "fruits" by definition, or other parts of the plant like leaves, stem, root ... the FRUITS too, could be any other part of the plant. All said, if there is any trouble in differentiation, no worries ... simply eat and enjoy !! ... because what some people know as VEGETABLE could be FRUIT to some other. Enough of what could be said about FRUITS and VEGETABLES ... more of it can be found in interesting references: a.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit b.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable c.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste d.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami e.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piquance What is the scope of posting in this episode ? Per my understanding ... any FRUIT or VEGETABLE that is known to perish in few days. What do we refrain from ? To avoid overlapping efforts among past and future episodes, we will refrain from posting: DRIED FRUITS ... almond, apricot, cashew, date, figs, peaches, plums, raisins, walnut SPICES ... fennel, mustard, black pepper, cinnamon, cloves, saffron, turmeric, ginger, asafoetida, masalas, ... CEREALS (GRAINS) ... most of them covered in grasses ... barley, corn, maize, millets, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, wheat, sugar PULSES ... beans, peas, lentils, ... in dried form ... (OK, in wet form) PRESERVED or PROCESSED FOOD ... all that is consumed from cans, tins, bottles, pickles ... OK, if some of us have keen interest in discussing flora from preserved food. References used: a.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dried_fruit b.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spices c.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereals d.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulses e.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preserved_food f.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processed_food Most of us would be in the midst of vacations ... wherever you are, go, go, go steal in broad daylight, every fruit and vegetable that you can get to see on a road-side seller, with your camera !! Happy posting ... Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all.
