Surely Nabha ji You may volunteer to coordinate and choose your month.
-- 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 Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 3:00 AM, nabha meghani <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > *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: >> >> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit >> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable >> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste >> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami >> - 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: >> >> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dried_fruit >> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spices >> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereals >> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulses >> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preserved_food >> - 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. >> > > > >
