Dear Kevin, in regards to this message to me,.

 >  As Howie Coombe wrote to Kevin Jcjd Symons Re: AUSTRALIAN NATIVE
HERBS 1    > Kevin sat UTGT {at} 1100ore on an overcast 21st of February,
2003 Cooee         > Howie!!!


G'day Kevin, liking this rain?

 > HC> G'day Kevin, What has been happening in your part of this fine state?

 >  Glorious rain... with a couple of cold days [ie. under 30øC] for the
       > present and then a fine weekend.


Lovely, so you are likeing this rain?,.

 > Have you had any fog up in your area?


There has been the Fog equivalent of a brick wall up here,.

 >> Similar to the prosciutto-style but sometimes adding sugar, as well as the 
 >> salt.

 > HC> And involveing thicker slices of meat, in my experiance,.

 >  I have only seen it sliced thinly like leg ham, slightly thicker
than the   > usual paper-thin proscuitto slices, maybe 1mm thick.


Aha, like i said, thicker,.

 >>> 1 kg Emu, 40 g Sea salt; coarse, 1 tb Pepperberries; rough
chop, 2 Lemon
 
 >> HC> Aha, great recipie but, What are pepperberries?

 >> I bought my [powdered] pepperleaf and pepperberries in at the
Goodies &    
 >> Grain shop in the CM.

 >  I have just gone and got a pepperberry and eaten it.


Aha, 

 > There is a strong camphor/eucalyptus taste, as indeed in most peppers.


Aha,.

 > HC> Long may the central market not become a car park,.

 >  Viva le Central Market!


And then some,.

 > I do not have a specific price of the spice, but the [native] sweet
myrtle   > was only $100/kg.


Which is not a bad price,.

 >> The Tasmannia species belongs to the WINTERACEAE family, which has been    
 >> used by Europeans from at least 1597 when the bark of the DRIMYS WINTERI   
 >> was used to relieve scurvy on board the 'Elizabeth', one of Drake's fleet, 
 >> under the command of Captain Winter.

 > HC> Aha, although im sure it was not refered to as tasmania anything,.

 >  Pepperberries are exclusively from Tasmania, I believe.


Aha, But in the 1500's Tasmania was not called Tasmania, it was called Van
Diemans Land,.

 > The above was a tidbit of info regarding the long-known knowledge
about the  > genera.


Aha, how long-known?,.

 > Cooee and Love,


Right back at you,.

 > Kevin... XXXXXXXXXXX " The end of the world has been postponed
for 27 days   > owing to the lack of UN trumpet players " ... Music
is a higher revelation   > than philosophy.


True enough that last statement,.

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