----- Original Message ----- From: "Livia/Jorge de Abreu Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 9:43 PM Subject: Re: Goanet Digest, Vol 1, Issue 207
> >> "Re: Contents of Goanet digest..." > >> Message: 2 > > Incidentally or "co-incidentally" in my personal library I have * Britto > Book of Plants. PTA of St Britto High School, 1995 Rs 25.*, I purchased it > for Rs35/- > *Green Aid III, Total Gardening. Green Heritage. Alexyz Fernandes, Miguel > Braganza, Francis Borges* gifted to me by Alexyz himself when he visited > Portugal, together with a copy of "Arso". > > By the way, coming back to "nachni", I made a typo erro re Scientific name > and it should read "Eleusine Coracane". although Dr. D.G. Dalgado refers > to it as "Eleusine Coracana". > > In reply to Mr. Carmo DCruz, I would say that in the booklet I referred > to, Ragi and Nachni are given as local names, and the booklet being in > English, it comes under "Finger Millet" > > Going through Kitty Campion's Vegetarian Encyclopedia, I found the > following description extremely interesting: > > "The term "millet" covers a hotchpotch of grasses which can withstand > drought, and on which one third of the world depends. I remember eating > finger millet (Elensine coracana )- no typo error this time- into a ball > as a child in East Africa. The trick was to scoop it from the pot, fashion > it into a ball, dent it and scoop up beans into the hole deftly closing it > before popping it into the mouth - all with the fingers of one hand. I > spent some happy hours mastering the art. (It was also made into a > fermented beer but I was never allowed to sample it.). > > Over to Miguel Braganza, Francis Borges and other Gurus in Agriculture. I > am just an amateur but I do have green fingers. > > Regards > > Livia de Abreu Noronha > > _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
