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First Americans Thrived On Seaweed
New Scientist ^
| 5-8-2008
| Jeff Hecht
Posted on 05/08/2008 2:07:20 PM PDT by blam
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To: calex59
I will be up in N. Calif. at the little town of Klamath on Aug. 17. My tribe is having the annual Salmon Festival and I will have a booth there selling my Indian art work. I've already shipped three boxes of my art to my sisters house so it will already be there when I arrive. They will have Indian barbecue salmon cooked on redwood sticks and possible sea weed but I doubt if they will have acorn soup. Maybe for themselves but not for the public. Also they have ceremonial dance exhibitions and traditional dress. It's really quite nice. The prohibit alcohol at these gatherings.
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05/08/2008 3:29:20 PM PDT
by
fish hawk
(The religion of Darwinism is dying. Thank God!)
To: ClearBlueSky; blam
I LOVE nori, especially the teriyaki nori snacks. I put it in my soup too! Different strokes for different folks, I guess... During my three years in Japan, I finally got to where I could handle miso (clear fish soup) and nori (seaweed) -- but I never got to where I could face them for breakfast! '-)
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05/08/2008 3:33:46 PM PDT
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TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
To: ClearBlueSky; blam
I LOVE nori, especially the teriyaki nori snacks. I put it in my soup too! Different strokes for different folks, I guess... During my three years in Japan, I finally got to where I could handle miso (clear fish soup) and nori (seaweed) -- but I never got to where I could face them for breakfast! '-)
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posted on
05/08/2008 3:33:46 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
To: mountainbunny
Also used for making dental impressions...
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posted on
05/08/2008 3:37:14 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
To: TXnMA; fish hawk
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posted on
05/08/2008 3:50:32 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: fish hawk
The Indians prepared the acorns correctly which removed the tannins and calcium oxalates produced by Quercus quercus. Eating raw acorns will result in the toxins being metabolized and causing renal failure. How deer eat them without problems makes me believe they have some intrinsic way of metabolizing them without forming the toxins that damage the kidneys. Hogs, cattle, and horses that eat acorns will die from kidney failure...
To: TXnMA
I lived for four years in Japan and developed a taste for the yosimbe crackers made from seaweed.
To: TXnMA
Oh, you’re so right!
It’s amazing stuff!
To: vetvetdoug
Are you sure about hogs? I ask because up on our reservation a lot of the people have pigs that just run wild on their property and there are acorns all over the ground there. I’m sure the pigs eat them but maybe not as I didn’t pay that much attention.
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posted on
05/08/2008 5:26:52 PM PDT
by
fish hawk
(The religion of Darwinism is dying. Thank God!)
To: fish hawk
acorn soup
The tribe here in the upper midwest gave up acorn soup probably 150 years ago; the European explorers had no taste for the stuff.
Now it’s wild rice soup, venison and a recent arrival - the Indian taco on frybread - my favorite.
The gatherring here in July is a recent revival of the old trapper rendevouz that the French voyagers attended hundreds of years ago. The earliest written account I have of a rendezous (pow-wow for you palefaces, or gun-touting, Bible carrying whiteys for you obama supporters) goes back to about 1570.
America’s second oldest city is at Sault Ste Marie, established by the French and Indians around 1620.
When we lived in the CA backcountry, we found two old Indian encampments in the Coastal Mountain range south of the Klamath. Lots of arrowheads, spear points and obsidian tools.
Well, good luck at your festival. Don’t eat too much acorn soup.
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posted on
05/08/2008 6:04:47 PM PDT
by
sergeantdave
(Governments hate armed citizens more than armed criminals)
To: fish hawk
Domestic hogs that eat an inordinate amount of acorns die of renal failure...poisoning may be related to concentration of ingestion or the shelling of the acorns before ingestion in hogs. Wild hogs may learn to shell them and avoid the toxic effects of the shell. Squirrels and deer utilize acorns as a significant part of their diet, as do turkeys. I have seen hogs eat a good many acorns and not be affected and some eat them and die of renal failure. One of my favourite horses I believe died due to acorn ingestion...he was addicted to them (it appeared).
To: blam
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05/08/2008 7:28:31 PM PDT
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blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; 49th; ...
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05/08/2008 9:45:25 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: calex59
“A brave man it was, who first and oyster et” James Mitchner
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posted on
05/09/2008 4:44:38 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . The Bitcons will elect a Democrat by default)
To: blam
The headlines elsewhere on similar stories was that the dating of Monte Verde has been confirmed. That’s big news.
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05/10/2008 12:49:20 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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