Dear colleagues,
During the IWGP-meeting in Girona I promised Gordon Hillman to send him an information. He asked me to send it to his private address, and we both thought it is in the list of the kongres-papers. Unfortunately this is not the case. Can anybody help me. Please, send this private address directly to me: [log in to unmask]
Thanks in advance! Sabine
Dr. phil. Sabine Karg
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Emne: Re: Cyperaceae tubers in Russia
Dear Mark,
Koschtschejew lists a various set of uses for Scirpus lacustris, with
emphasis on consumption, concluding that "people in extreme situations
need not to fear hunger when they are close to club rush".
Cheers,
Simone
PS We also missed you at Girona! Hope everything is ok?
Mark Nesbitt schrieb:
>I have received the following enquiry regarding tuber consumption in
>Russia. I guess from the description (triangular stems) that we are
>dealing with Cyperaceae, not Juncaceae, and from the location the
>species must be temperate, not one of the sub-tropical Cyperus
>species. Any thoughts?
>
>By the way, sorry to miss everyone in Girona, sounds to have been
>a good meeting.
>
>Mark
>
><SNIP>I am a Russian specialist and I am doing some research
>on a Russian writer called Boris Andreevich Mozhaev (1923-1996),
>who writes a great deal about the Russian countryside. He was a
>very close friend of the famous writer Solzhenitsyn, and he has a
>wonderful knowledge of plants and shrubs which grow around the
>area of Riazan' (sometimes spelt Ryazan), which is about
>100 miles SE of Moscow. He also writes a great deal about the
>Meshchera national park area, on which there are many references
>on the internet.
>
>He wrote a work which I am translating at the moment entitled
>'Lively' (named after the nickname of the main character). In it he
>makes reference to an acquatic plant which is growing in a local
>lake (in the Ryazan area), which grows tall, like a reed, but he
>specifically says it is neither a reed nor a grass, but that is not to
>say that technically it might be either. It has a triangular cross-
>section and he describes it as 'black and hairy'. The reason he
>mentions it is because there was a terrible famine in Russia in
>1932-33 as a result of the government policy to destroy all
>independent farms and push them into collective farms, a
>process called collectivization, which cost the lives of about 6
>million people, because the peasants destroyed their own cattle
>and crops rather than let the state have them. The peasants
>turned to eating anything that grew locally, and they even ate tree
>bark. Horrifically, there were even reports of cannibalism. The
>point Mozhaev is making in the story is that the locals actually ate
>this acquatic plant, by pulling on the stems and
>washing the root/tubers, which they then dried and used as flour to
>bake something resembling bread. He also describes the stem as
>being very sharp, capable of cutting anyone brushing against it,
>and locally it is known as a 'bollock cutter' or 'balls cutter', because
>fishermen were frequently cut by it when fishing using a drag net.
>
>In Russian the common name is 'mudorez', the word 'mude' being
>slang for 'testicles'<SNIP>
>
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