I hate smoking too.
can tell you several stories on that.
If the lady wants to smoke and dring and feed her baby, it is her business.
live and let live.
The foto I took , with her permission btw., to capture the real life.
I am going to sleep now.
Asta la vista ( till next)
Nalini
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pankaj Kumar" <[email protected]>
To: "Na Bha" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: fruit and vegetable week: Storytellingtime: Mate
Nice information...thanks a lot for sharing....
I kind of disliked the last pic, a lady with a baby and a cigarette and
mate!!!
I hate smoking.....:((
Regards
Pankaj
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Na Bha <[email protected]> wrote:
Now I am back, finished the urgent work, and shall tell you the first
story.
Mate, Mate-tea
Mate-Tea is a popular drink in tropical southamerica. My Fotos are however
from Buenos Aires. People carry a thermos flask and a Matepot even while
going thru the streets, discussing or arguing with the neighbour,
picknicking. I even saw young people, the boy, with one arm round the
shoulder of his girlfriend and Matepot in the other hand.
The pot called Mate is made from the fruit of a gourd vine (Iagenaria
vulgaris, cucurbitaceous family). One can choose the form, the decoration
as
one likes. Along with traditional Mate pots you will also find kitschy
pots
on sale. After the gourd is dried for a long time, one has to cure it. The
vendor tried to explain me with lots of words and plenty of gesture. But
my
spanish is not so good. the curing is done to get rid of the bitterness of
the gourd. Again german wiki http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate has much
more
information than english wiki.
Anyway the pot is Mate, comes from the old Indian language quechua. The
rod
is called bombilla, it is like a straw and the spoon-end is a sieve.
Mate-tea, called yerba, are leaves of Mate bush (Ilex paraguariensis
A.St.-Hil, auch: Ilex paraguensis D.Don und Ilex paraguayensis Hook). Half
of the Matepot is filled with Yerba and hotwater is poured on it. With
Bombilla you drink (suck) the tea.
It is extremely bitter, not my case. One may drink the tea with suger,
milk,
aromated tea, and what not. But a real Argentinean will drink it the
traditional way, anytime, everywhere. I wonder if they go to bed with a
matepot near the alarmclock.
Btw. Buenos Aires is a beautiful city, plenty of green, small niches along
the roads to sit and drink mate or to watch the hustle and bustle. Just
too
warm.
Asta la vista
Nalini
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