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pumpkin : 11/9/2009
next time you come home get some of the seeds and try planting them and see if they grow that may solve the problem.

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yummy : 11/9/2009
My son was born in the US and my fiance is American. They love themselves some roti, brown chicken and rice and peas, macaroni pie, and many more Bajan foods. I too love my cornbeef in gravy with rice, and cannot get enough of my bajan food here. I have so many people here asking to taste some Bajan food.

Bajan in VA

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: 11/9/2009
the hedge grows all over the island - just ask a neighbour or friend. Also what about "wonder of the world" also called "leaf of life". We have some wonderful healing herbs which we don't take advantage of. I live in Canada and I have some of these herbs and plants growing in my yard and house e.g. mint, lemon balm, thyme, chives, comfrey - yard; bayleaf, broad leaf thyme, rosemary, soursop and pride of Barbados - inside. I buy my spices when I visit Barbados and make a variety of teas which have many health benefits. LOOKIG FOWARD TO MOVING BACK ONE DAY

ZZSL3

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: 11/9/2009
I am a Bajan living in Montreal. I have two daughters who were born in Montreal, but I raise them on Caribbean food especially Bajan food. My daughters were very disappointed when they visited Barbados and saw that the Mauby is now made from syrup and not from the boil bark.Living overseas we seem to appreciate the Barbadian food more than the people who actually live in Barbados. One day I called my friend who still lives in Barbados and I told her that I was cooking spilt pea rice and cornbeef and she laugh and "said that she didn't think that Bajan overseas ate those things and she couldn't tell the last time she ate that. I love all food Bajan and will continue to eat and drink my Bajan foods. Even though some of them are very expensive over here.

Bajan living in Montreal

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Are the pumkins the same : 11/9/2009
What I remember of the pumpkins home was that they were green on the outside and long. The ones I see her are round and orange. DO you guys use the ones here? The last time I saw a Bajan pumpkin was 25 yrs ago. If the pumpkin here can be used and it still taste the same then I will use it. Some things here have the same name but are different like yam and sweet potatoes.

BAJAN IN VA

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CONKIES : 11/9/2009
conkies are some of the most nutritious and delicious food dishes in the caribbean. We should try to market them internationally.

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Banana leaves : 11/8/2009
Alot of mexican owned supermarkets sell the rolls of banana leaves with prices ranging from $2-5 depending on the size.

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PRIDE OF BARBADOS : 11/7/2009
DO SHOPS SELL PRIDE OF BARBADOS LEAF TEA? WHERE CAN I GET SOME

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CONKIES : 11/7/2009
HI CHERYLY, I WAS wondering if pumpkin is not pumpkin. can you get no pumpkin at all in the states? w

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Need info : 11/6/2009
Bajan Americans or Canadians,what can I substitute for the pumpkin here in the states? Can I sue the one they sell here in the fall? It is not the same. Send me info @ cherylannha@yahoo.com. I found a recipe at justbajan.com and would love to try it. Thanks

Bajan in VA

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banana leaves : 11/6/2009
when we get the Banana leaves we can use the for not only wrapping the conkies but to then control diabetes. God is wonderful.

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Conkies : 11/6/2009
I found some fresh banana leaves at a chinese grocer once. There sell frozen bananas leaves: Can Exporters in the Carribean export bananas leaves to Brampton and Mississauga, Canada. Lot of us eat conkies all year minus the banana leaves; when we congregate. And we have a shortage of Elcipse Crackers.

Mouthwatering

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PROUD CONKIE LOVER : 11/6/2009
ask the government to import some from Barbados, you will get fresh good one. conkies are not conkies unless they are in Banana skins. so get your leaves. make the policy maker know andd give them a few conkIES.

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Homemade remedies : 11/6/2009
I tell everyone about the Shark liver oil my grandma made and sold. I remember walking with her in the field and picking the bush to make Bush tea. I never got sick as a child and owe it all to all the natural herbs. They tasted bad but we chased them down with oranges and honey. The good old days

Bajan in VA

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: 11/6/2009
Bajan/Canadian, Try looking in an Asian food store. the larger ones may have them I have seen them there.

Bajan in VA

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Conkies : 11/6/2009
i have not had a conkie since I left in 1984 and I miss them. I get everything else but I only visit during the summer therefore no conkies. I read this article and my mouth watered :) One day I will get back during November and eat one. All things Bajan. :)

Bajan in VA

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BANANA LEAVES : 11/5/2009
WE NEED SOME BANANAS LEAVES IN TORONTO TO MAKE YOUR CONKIES. WE CAN ONLY USED FOIL..NO BANANAS LEAVES UP NORTH. SEND US SOME NUH..EH.. BAJAN/CANADIAN

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STEW DUMPLINGS : 11/5/2009
a conkie and a stew dumpling are the same thing. I don't know where the word stew dumpling come from. DONT" KNOW

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CONKIES : 11/5/2009
they are really treasures and beloved by us. WAITING FOR INDEPENDENCE

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banana leaves : 11/5/2009
happy independence to all. i do enjoy this column and will try the banana leaves for HBP. will keep all posted.

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conkies : 11/5/2009
The healing nature of conkies could not be better stated. We in the Caribbean need to become more aware of what we have, when i went overseas especially latin amercia they focus is on fruits and vegetables, people from Guyana, domincia and St. Vincent and Jamacia know they herbs and they use them effectively. Bajans grand parents must ensure that they tell the young people about herbs. It pays to learns and finally I love conkies. Conkie Expert

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CONKIES : 11/5/2009
I LOVE conkies but i am very glad to hear they are so nutritious. the banana leaves have me shock about its value. I hope more Bajans eat them not only at independence. They are for the rich and poor. canadian bajan

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: 11/5/2009
they are guys at new castle. st. john will real banana leaves. i also love conkies.

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: 11/4/2009
If bajans love conkies? You mekking sport or wha? If they eat them as before? Welll not really. Nowadays many of us eat them made wrapped in foil instead of banana leaves. Especially those of us who live overseas. But guess what. When some of us go home, we get the banana leaves and cut out the squares nicely, put them in a plastic bag and lay them flat. Then we take them back 'over in away' and when conkie time come, we retrieve them from the freezer.

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: 11/4/2009
What is the difference between a conkie and a stew dumpling?

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: 11/4/2009
I make my conkies all year but it is very difficult to get Banana leaves. Where can i get a surplus. But do Barbadian really love conkies or eat them as before? Conkie lover

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Conkies : 11/4/2009
I did not know the benefit of pumpkin, but I have always LOVED conkies. So imagine my suprise when two weeks ago I came home and my 83-year mom had made conkies for me. She said she had a feel for them. They were the best tasting thing I have eaten in the longest while. This was followed a few days later when she made corn pone. These are things that we ate while growing up but she had not fixed for us in a while. It was wonderful. If only we could go back to when we were children spending our school break running around eating, gauva, donce, fat pork,mangoes,golden apples, mammy apples,hog plums, cherries and the list just runs on and on. All this was followed of course by a lovely dose of ball bush to cleanse you and get you ready to go back to school. The worse tasting think in the world but so worth it after eating every fruit imaginable during the school break

really!!!

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: 11/4/2009
Conkies SHOULD make all Barbadians proud.

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: 11/3/2009
in my days we ate many conkies but never knew that they were so healing. It is good that the Nation is doing like Trinidad and Jamacia and providing its citizen with this type of information, go to the Jamacian Herald and read about healing herbal medcicines with Diana Robertson. Congrats and keep up this very high standard of work. and keep telling us about the silent doctors. This article was well written and worth the read.

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Sharon School : 11/3/2009
Is there anyway I can contact Wendy, NY. I also went to Sharon School and enjoyed picking any fruit that grew in the grave yard by the school. Sharon

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Excellent : 11/3/2009
A very informative and well written article

AAG

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: 11/3/2009
Excellent to the max. I would like Mrs. Maynard-Watson to provide a recipe and explain to us why we need to use the banana leaves opposed to the danger of foil. and how o store the banana leaves when they are in plenty.

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tumeric : 5/18/2009
my mother still cook with tumeric. Jamacians cook with both tumeric and ginger, ans sometimes they mix garlic and pepper with it.

t3w3p

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: 5/17/2009
can I use tumeric with ginger and garlic? or is this mixture too strong? and should I eat it daily, i was wondering?

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: 5/17/2009
this is for the silent doctor. my friend delores went into the market on thirsday and one of the vendors was saying that she had a swollen foot, she read about tumeric on Monday and made a poultice with it, adding garlic and the swelling when down and she showed the persons and they were shocked. so keep writing for us silent doctor.

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: 5/17/2009
tumeric is really an excellent food for spicing up your food, incorporating it into the food is not hard. try adding it into rice, stews and grater it on salads. I have a neighbour who does cook with tumeric and when she does not have any she would call ne to get piece, she loves tumeric. kathy

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Tumeric: 5/16/2009 : 5/16/2009
When my pappy was an overseer at Waterhall Plantation in St. James, tumeric grew in the orchard there and of course my mum used it in her cooking. The good old days! Margaret Ross

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tumeric : 5/16/2009
PROGRESS. i WANT TO KNOW IF WE WILL INDEED HAVE A GUIDED TOUR TO SEE AND RECOGNISE THE SILENT DOCTORS? I READ THIS BLOG DAILY AWAITING AN ANSWER.

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tumeric : 5/16/2009
the issues this week have some of us stressed out can you please write about a stress relieving silent doctor. I use tumeric and do hope that you can write an article to include recipes jan

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: 5/15/2009
who can I contact at the Nation to speak about a workshop on the silent doctors. I would like to add my voice to the others. please tell me who to contact. MR APPRECIATION

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Grew up on the natural fruit : 5/14/2009
I echo the sentiment of those of us who would not let the young tamarind come out before we eat them and the leaves also. I am a national who lives in America, and when ever I return home, and I see a tamarind tree,I look around for a a stick to try to knock them down, and I am 53yrs old.I was not aware,that these native fruit were designated "Poor man's fruits". Picking of theses kinds of fruit, hogplums, goose berries( nayberries by some other islands, is what we look forward to .We could not wait for the summer to go to the country,or other family homes,to raid these trees.I know every morning at around six o'clock in the morning, my father would take us to the Westbury Cemetery, when it had fruit trees,to get hogplums,and they were the best tasting plums I ever had.My father worked there as a labourer, and I do not know how many of you remembers that it had a landmark Tamarind tree as you reached top of the road by the circle in front of the church.We look froward to when that tree was bearing,and my father brought home the tamarind and put them in syrup,and during vacation time we get to eat them, and not only that,he would take some of the syrup and tamarind mixture and make "swank" that healthy drink with all its natural sugars. Now tumeric,growing up as a child, my interaction with this vegetable is that when my father use to make hotsauce, we had to peel it for that use, and I know that it colour "stain up" your hands when you you it, but I never really knew all the properties.Now,I cannot remember seeing it in the vegetable stores, other than a powder form.To those who ask about the tamarind that is sold here in North America, and which comes from Asia, taste nothing like the one coming from the trees.They are very sweet,and do not have any seeds,and lack the tart or sourness that we know the tamarind should have.To those who brought back all those childhood memories,which made up healthy children and we did not need any medical treatment,for anything other than a cut or scrape from climbing or falling from these same trees.Thank you for the memories.

Pat

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Tumeric a Silent Doctor : 5/14/2009
Poor or not,Bajans children were healthy and didn't even know it. We ate every fruit known to man, and we ran all to and from school. Today you have to drop the children off at the school door. I said that to say this "GET BACK TO BASIC, BUSH AND ALL", it's good for you don't need and article to tell you what you already know. bajan in the of USA.

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Turmeric a 'silent doctor' : 5/14/2009
Why not share how you use this product for cooking or any other health benefit. personally i grater turmeric over my salads, always use a heaping teaspoon full in my coc-cou gravy/sauce, in my cook up one pot rice/salt fish[ poor man food] i use it again.Great tasting how ever you use it poor but healthy like bull keep it coming.

REAL POOR RICH EATER!

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Confusing Topics : 5/14/2009
To those persons who may be now submitting comments about tumeric, and are obviously bewildered as to the tamarind comments, it is not your fault. Neither is it the fault of those writng about tamarinds. The tamarind comments were about the article previous to this one. Can you guess whose fault it is now? The comments from last week have not been cleared! They have just continued to show them.

A. Williams

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: 5/14/2009
TO THE NATION: CAN WE HAVE A SEMINAR ON THE SILENT DOCTORS AND HAVE FOOD DEMONSTRATIONS. ASKING???????????//

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: 5/14/2009
I am very happy to have been supplied with such good information. I use tumeric and never knew it was so good. it just goes to show that we need to take the advice from the silent doctor and make sure that we do research and grow our own herbs. MISS PRECIOUS

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Turmeric : 5/13/2009
Oh yes, turmeric is a powerful healing agent. It is a main ingredient in curry powder. I understand it is a wonderful astrigent for the skin as well. . .God gave us the leaves and the trees for the healing of the nations. We can't go wrong when we use the herbs that were given for humanity .

E.M. Murphy

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tumeric : 5/13/2009
@MR.APPRECIATION You can purchase fresh tumeric from any of the vendors on Marhill Street, Roebuck Street, St. Michael's Row, on the Bridge or in the vendors area in the old olympic. I find it there whenever I am on the rock.

PAT

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Tamarinds : 5/13/2009
Man, I used to make tamarinds bawl. From the young without seeds, the baby leaves too. When it came to plums, we had a tree behind the girls school and we used to eat the green leaves because they tasted the same as the green plums. Every cent I got, went to buying green tamarinds and I kept all the mellowies for myself. At the Modern High School where we had at least a dozen trees, everyone, RICH AND POOR alike ate tamarinds. You would see kids not waiting for them to fall and trying to grab a branch and shake. We use to lift the lighter person up on our shoulders to reach the high branches. What fun we had. We raided Mr. Lynch's orchard and ate his green mangoes and even limes. We also had cherry on the grounds and an ingrafted orange. I am sure he reaped none. After immigrating to Canada, I found out that Asians use tamarind in lots of their cooking and you can buy it here with or without seeds in packages (pressed like a cake) for $1. I still buy it to eat. But they use it in sweet and sour soup, sambar, sauces and stews. There is a dish made with cream of wheat or crushed rice that South Indians eat with tamarind sauce. They use lots of tumeric too. I buy the fresh one at the Asian store, scrape, grate, mix with vinegar and keep in my kitchen.

Pat

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Tumeric : 5/13/2009
You are correct in saying that this particular article is about Tumeric. However, there was a previous article on 5/8 that spoke about the benefits of tamarinds. As a boy, I would try to make tamarind jam and tamarind drink; In the process I would burn up a lot of pots and bend up a lot of spoons. I don't know much about Tumeric, but I am happy about all of this beneficial information we recieved on it. Although we can readily get this nformation from many sources, it is good that it is provided here for us. Eassssy on the writer who took many off course.Keep doing your good work silent doctor. Baje in US

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Good work Silent doctor : 5/13/2009
I have been using Tumeric for 15 years now, Whenever I cook I must use tumeric in my food because I know that it is very good for you as it helps to protcet your stomach from a whole lot of dis-eases. You should talk about the power of the Cocunut as well silent doctor.

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: 5/13/2009
I agree with several previous commemts. How did those folks mix tumeric with tamarinds? Now tamarinds may be good too but why not say this...instead of going off on a tangent about something else and completely ignoring tumeric? I too have heard about the benefits of tumeric. It is almost magical. Go Annette. Mags

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: 5/13/2009
This article is about tumeric -not tamarinds! Go in the market PEOPLE!!

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Tumeric : 5/13/2009
Maybe I am lost. I thought the subject of the article was on "tumeric". All through these comments except one the discussion is on "tamarinds."

Tony

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Turmeric a 'silent doctor' : 5/13/2009
I am reading the say article as the other people who have comments here. The article clealy states "TURMERIC A SILENT DOCTOR" where does tamarine come in. These are two different things. People please read the article properly before you go off on a strut.

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healing herbs : 5/12/2009
So you mean it was not only me that couldn't wait for the young tamarinds to come out and and resorted to eating those nice young pink leaves? steupse...I did not know they were good for me but I sure enjoyed them. By the way readers, go easy on the person who thought tamarinds were for poor people. That kind of prejudice is learnt behaviour. I guess the poor little rich kid lost out on many other healthy pleasures. By the way Annette, do those imported sweet tamarinds have similar health benefits? those are all i can get (easily)in my present domicile.

tamarind ball

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tamarinds : 5/12/2009
i read all your comments, laughed, ooh and ah.pity the human who never experienced picking, hooking with a stick or even climbing the tree to get one.our tree was located behind our school near the graveyard.best ones in the parish of ST Thomas at Sharon's school.HEALTHY,POOR,BAJAN BEAUTY.wendy,ny.

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: 5/12/2009
i want to know where I can purchase the fresh tumeric. We are being educated in a whole new way. thanks to annette and the Nation. Keep up the good work. MR.APPRECIATION

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: 5/11/2009
tamarinds are plenty now in season. i ate tamarinds enough when I was little and we knew little about doctors. those fruits kept us healthy

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: 5/10/2009
i hope you don't mean with so many tamarinds in Barbados that we import them from Thailand. Tell me if you serious or joking? if you serious, we got to be crazy. I WANT TO KNOW?????????

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tamarind : 5/10/2009
yeah tamarind is farmed in plenty in thailand and imported to BImshire from thailand Y Is DaT ?

Vance

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Tamarinds : 5/9/2009
I really cannot beleive the comments i read about tamarinds,most of the people in Barbados i am sure came from somewherelse,we grew up eating tamarinds getting flogged with tamrind rods.The miller brothers exported tamarinds in syrp and employed many people to go out and harvest them and prepare them for export.baj in ca usa.

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tamarinds : 5/9/2009
i am very glad that I had the time to enjoy some nice tamarinds. i never knew however that tamarinds were so full of healing properties.

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Tamarinds : 5/8/2009
"Tamarind is for poor people"....Must be someone who considers his\her self to be Bajan because of parentage or adoption.I bet you money that the person never lived in Barbados.....Such person would also consider gooseberry and hog plum to be poor people fruit. I doubt such a person ever had a ripe\ stale goose berry or plum from under the tree. Nevertheless because we are a very tolerant and easy going people we can understand the person's deprivation and will tolerate their confusion; however said person must understand that regardless of whether he or she is a Johnny\Jane come-lately or otherwise that ANY repeat ANY disparaging,negative,unappreciative condescending comment(s)about BREADFRUIT is and will be considered fighting words.

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Tamarinds Sour : 5/7/2009
Let me back Tamarind Eater and also reprimand the poor great poppet who believed that these fruits were only for poor people. Not only is the person showing their ignorance to the fullest, but was prbably constipated. I grew up rather privileged to some extent and not enjoyed the fruit but also the tasty leaves. We could not wait for the trees to put out the little ones and by the time the tamarinds were ripe, we had to climb the trees as the last one, now ripe, were all the way at the top. We also could not wait to be unsupervised to boil them with sugar. To Tamarinds Sour, I have never heard this comment before in any cirles at all. Does poor great poppet know that the lowly fruit is a main ingredient in Worschersire Sauce? I lived in Germany and at one time had to pay very dearly to be able savour them, (when I could find them). They are even more expensive that what we pay for fruits such as peaches and nectarines and by far. They are considered by some, more privileged than us, to be exotic. Anyhow judge not, poor great can continue to enjoy all the imported and sometimes badly processed fruits, that every now and then you hear about being contaminated by the salmonella bacterium.

A. Williams

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A good drink too : 5/6/2009
Tamarind makes one of the best drinks you can find anywhere. Superior to what we buy on the shelf and better too that many of the so called health drinks.

F53R6

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old school : 5/6/2009
way to go. i glad you tell them about the old days, you remember fighting someone for a melody/melann tamarind this is when i green and nowing turing brown. they was a fight under the tree for this type of tamarind. guess the more we look the less we see. the more we move away from our foods the sicker we will be vex

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WOW : 5/6/2009
Tamarinds only for poor people!!! How ignorant is that!!!

TamarindEater

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Tamarinds Sour : 5/5/2009
Tamarinds for poor people. I hope u didn't come from the country,because you would make me ashame of how supid you (were) are, I guess salt fish is for poor people too, bread fruit,yams, potato,ackee,mangoes, etc, that is why the 'poor people' are living to be a hundred and rich ones (like you) are sickly and dying early. since living in the US all the different herbs that we use for seasonings has some kind of benifit for our bodies. start eating tamarinds til ya get de collic. I am from the old school.

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tamarinds sour : 5/5/2009
these sour fruits are incredible is the article is true. i never ate a tamarind in my life I always thought there were for poor people. I now have a new respect for this type of thing.

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recipes : 5/5/2009
can the silent doctor provide some tamrind recipes for us. thank you. gloria

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WANT TO KNOW ALSO : 5/5/2009
can we have a tour to see these herbs so that we can commence our silent doctor garden? I cannot identify most of the herbs. i too want to know. wanted Bajan TRINi

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healing herbs : 5/5/2009
i join in with the others comments i have read so far, can the silent doctor give a lecture on these herbs at a named venue? WANT TO KNOW

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eat local response : 5/5/2009
that is the biggest challange we face. all we have to do is get the young people on board. this must be a task set out to parents to implement. I am sorry that young people too are so far away from their heritage. glen

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Eat Local : 5/5/2009
This is a wonderful service you are doing. Whenever I return home I can hardly wait to taste whatever local fruit or produce is in season; its not quite the same when bought overseas. I am always proud whenever I see aloebarbdiennes (sp) amongst the ingredients listed for some product. Surely there ought to be more that we can do to market and package our goods more productively in the world market. On the downside, I have noticed some of the younger brainer relatives shunning e.g. breadfruit and other "ground provisions"; alas we seem to have bred a university bound group of youngsters who would rather have an "english apple" than a golden apple, and foreign grapes which are almost all alcohol by the time the reach the supermarkets on dried out stems, if not cooked by the sun in trays in the various open markets. Education sure aint common sense. Carmeta Frazier must be turning in her grave.

Gadfly

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tarimindus indica : 5/5/2009
hello annette could you please write about christmas bush. you give good information. xbush concern reader

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concern : 5/5/2009
i was here poundering whether what i was re ading was correct. are tamarinds really tha great. i must find some and start a business, cause dey like the real good. we must become more aware of the things around us

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elders : 5/5/2009
do the elders really know about these herbs? i asked a old woman about herbs and she tell me that she don't know nothing about them, the only one she know is creasee. i believe that we need to do some interviews with them to get their views. the nation can do this to keep us more informed

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way to go : 5/5/2009
someone somewhere should gather the tamrinds in the tree and try tp get the government to start exporting tamarinds. they are under the trees wasting. heed my advice a stitch in time saves nine. admirer

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: 5/5/2009
Tamarinds are nice, but I never knew they contained so many healing properties. I believe the silent doctors should give us a part two to this article. Bajan enquiring

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TAMARIND LOVER : 5/5/2009
IT IS SO GOOD THAT GOD HAS INSPIRED A BAJAN LIKE ANNETTE AND A BAJAN NEWSPAPER-THE NATION TO DO SUCH GOOD WORK. I AM SO GLAD TO HEAR THAT THOSE THINGS WHICH I ATE AT PRIMARY SCHOOL WERE INDEED NUTRITIOUS. i AM TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY. I AM STILL IN SHOCK. MY FRIENDS AND I REALLY HAVE TO GET ON THE COMPUTER AND DO OUR RESEARCH. I WILL WAIT TO SEE WHAT COMES NEXT WEEK/ KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND KEEP EATING TAMARINDS

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tamarinds : 5/5/2009
tamarind is an excellent herb and we need to use them. an excellent job done by the nation. a real tamarind lover

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: 4/23/2009
i want the silent doctors to hold a session so that we would get to see and know these herbs which she writes about each week, since they is no picture to help us to identify them. concern bajan

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excellent : 4/23/2009
good reading. kudos to the Nation.

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FIYBNY : 4/23/2009
i am very glad that you bought up the subject of casting away pearls. Mangoes and the other fruits on this island of Barbados are real treasures, like our friends in Domincia, if we commence really looking at the land which God blessed us with, we would soon realise that we have enough land, to grown and export fruits and we can use them also for medicines. the hospitials and doctors would have less stress and we would be healthier and wiser. a word to the wise is enough.

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: 4/22/2009
Thanks for this article which I will print and keep. I have a big problem in St. James with monkies that won't let me get a mango from my tree. Perhaps somebody can write an article on how to be successfully rid of monkies. Dumb.

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healing herbs : 4/22/2009
I can’t wait to get my hand on some nice juicey mangoes, I glad you tell them not to cast out the pearls, I hope Mr. Benn is not too late in saving the mango trade, go down ST. Andrew and see how much mangoes dey got waiting to rot.. I waiting to see what example the Minister gine set with all those mangoes at soil. I hope dey ain’t gine waste. Watching and waiting

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response to FIYBNY : 4/22/2009
A BAJAN LIVING IN NEW YORK, WHO IS HERE ON HOLIDAY SAID VOCALLY, WE AUGHT TO ENJOY THE MANGOES NOW THEIR ARE IN SEASON BECAUSE THEY VERY EXPENSIVE IN nEW yORK ONE FOR LITTLE AT 3 US DOLLARS SOMEWHERE. bAJAN PLEASE ENJOY THE MANGOES AND THE NATION DOES GET THUMBS UP FOR SUCH A SPLENDID ARTICLE. READING AND ENJOYING HEALING HERBS

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THUMPS UP - A+ : 4/22/2009
THANK YOU FOR THIS GREAT ARTICLE PACKED WITH IMPORTANT AND VALUABLE INFORMATION ABOUT MANGOS. MANY TIMES MANGOS ARE SEEN ON THE STREETS OF BARBADOS UNWANTED AS IF SOME FORM OF GARBAGE, MOST RECENTLY. IT IS SAD THAT THE YOUTH HAVE NOT THIS INFORMATION, THEY SHOULD EAT THE MANGO AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE IT IS PART OF WHAT IS GOOD ABOUT BARBADOS. MANGOS IS AN EARTH DAY TOPIC AS EATING THEM WOULD BENEFIT THE ISLAND. WE LOVE MANGOS HERE IN THE STATES. SHOPPING FOR THE BEST ONE IS IMPORTANT. IT HAS A GROWING INTEREST IN THE USA. BARBADOS NEEDS TO LOOK AT THEIR TREASURES AND CAST NOT THEIR PEARLS AWAY. I HOPE YOUR ARTICLE WILL BE A COLUMN THAT BRINGS MORE OF THIS UPSCALE TYPE OF JOURNALISTIC HEALTH AND NUTRITION EDUCATION

FIYBNY

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mangoes : 4/21/2009
it is good that Bajan canadians are reading the Nation. as the comment stated we need to use our local fruits especially guava etc and not allow the tourist to come here and eat then, while we continue to be ignorant about what we have. I will continue reading about the herbs A STRONG BAJAN

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mangoes : 4/21/2009
JOBBY that is really a bajan word, I have not heard that word in ages. It brought back many childhood memories.

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mangoes : 4/20/2009
i knew all this already, that is why God put them there, if you notice the food from each country is different, God put inplace each food for each nation, its us who dont want to eat and enjoy, boy foreigners come and enjoy and find all the healing ability of each of the island foods, yet bajans want to eat foreigh food that do not do them any good but create health problems, dont you see the people that leave and go away are not as healty as the one who stay back and enjoy God's nature. not only mangoes, but golden apples, pears, dunks,gooseberry and all those things that we take for granted, even tamarind serves a purpose in our daily diet. the fat bajans is a result of over eating and laziness, but if you study a group of children fed earth food and those that are man made and synthetic, you will see the difference in their skin texture and weight, God dont make mistakes, everything he puts on this earth is good, thanks for the info Annette, hope others see it and make use of them, when i return to bim, all i want is the natural food, breadfruit, pototoes, yams, eddows, christophene and all God's wonderful flavors, i had 3 guavas fres from the tree last week, how wonderful, i jobby like a fowl dat eat too much breafurit. it was good. I give God all the thanks and praise, he is worthy and he is a good God. nothing he made is not good, we just have to know how to use it, even the bush teas from different herbs and shrubs does wonders for the body and are good for healing. i thank you annette. keep up the good work of showing people the goodness of the Almight God. baje in toronto

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Silent doctor : 4/20/2009
When will the readers of the Nation Newspaper get a seminar on silent Doctor findings (HERBS). After reading the column week after week Barbadians need to be educated. Thanks, Born Bajam.

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