Bill Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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>I think of "saffron" as the color of Buddhist monks' cloaks. I cannot
>afford saffron spice for cooking, even if I knew what to do with it.
Steep it in warm milk and mix it to sauces or stir into rice etc.
>
>In early '80s I was buying spices at small neighborhood grocery store. In
>the alphabetical display there was a small note -- "Ask At Counter for
>Saffron". I did so out of curiosity. "Oh. It's so expensive that we
>keep it off the shelves."
It is about 5 pounds a gram I think.
>
>Do you suppose some conniving breeder conned the NGS into adopting
>"Saffron" as a term? Instantly increasing value of his/her pups? Like a
>stock market coup? (*grins*)
Knowing the people concerned I know this is not true!
The person interested in breeding them offered no name.
--
Julian
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