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Re: Missing?

From: StellrJ at aol.com on 2002.01.02 at 03:04:05(8011)
In a message dated 1/1/02 10:59:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,
ju-bo@email.msn.com writes:
<< The Amaranth is sold in bundles as Jamaican spinach, Jamaicans use it (and
+More
not Colocasia leaves like we Trinidadians do) for THEIR 'calaloo', and folk
in N. Florida call it 'pig-weed', and at least around my Trinidadian
friend`s home compete w/ others in gathering it where it grows as a weed in
newly ploughed or cleared ground! I turned Mary Sizemore and Lynn Hannon
on to it, they say it was THE best greens they have tasted! >>
Obviously, they have never tasted stinging nettle. Amaranth is all right,
but nettle is better.
Jason Hernandez
Naturalist-at-Large

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