Re: Bargains at the Indian Mart

From: magrysbo at shu.edu on 2001.08.23 at 22:37:50(7293) Yes, thanks Julius. It was you I think that made up the table with the aroid common, scientific, and local names as well as country where they are eaten. This inspired me to go looking when I was informed of the local Indian shopping area not too far from me. Perhaps other members in areas other than Miami, NYC, or suburban New Jersey can locate some and write about it. +More After seeing the web site forwarded by Brian I'm hoping these things will grow like that. I was really blown away by some of the pics. The expense of my first small paeonifolius from a nursery led me to coddle it too much and probably contributed to its steady growth -- in reverse. Sorry Mr. A., but these priced tubers may allow me more ease in purchasing and providing some benign neglect! Bonaventure "Julius Boos" @mobot.org on 08/22/2001 08:52:51 PM Please respond to aroid-l@mobot.org Sent by: aroid-l@mobot.org To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L cc: Subject: Re: Bargains at the Indian Mart ----- Original Message ----- To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 12:41 PM Subject: Re: Bargains at the Indian Mart >Dear fellow aroiders, >I went on a search for "suran" at Indian groceries in Edison, NJ and found >it, for $2.99 a pound. That translates to one 5 lb. tuber of Amorphophalus >paeonifolius and one 3 lb. for about $24 >>Obviously, someone imports these on a commercial basis. I wonder if there aren't others (myself included) that would like to be able to obtain these "super-sized" Amorph's.<< I posted on this some time ago, advising that it was a fantastic bargain. I sometimes find them at an Indian Grocery here in WPB, Florida, the shop keeper told me that they are imported fresh from Jamaica where they are in cultivation. They probably come out of the commercial importers of tropical produce in Miami, the smae one that supply the Xanthosomas, Colocasias, Dioscorias, and MANY other vars. of all sorts of Tropical produce we now find in ethnic shops all over the USA. Julius Boos WPB, Florida. -- Don Martinson Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mailto:llmen@execpc.com

Note: this is a very old post, so no reply function is available.