Nice information and the pots too look very nice I was how they carved the hoofs out to make a pot!! Thanks for sharing such lovely informations tanay
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Na Bha <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > > -- > *********************************************** > "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" > > > Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) > Research Associate > Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project > Department of Habitat Ecology > Wildlife Institute of India > Post Box # 18 > Dehradun - 248001, India > -- *Tanay Bose* Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. Department of Botany. University of British Columbia . 3529-6270 University Blvd. Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) 604-822-2019 (Lab) 604-822-6089 (Fax) [email protected] *Webpages:* http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.html http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.html https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/
