From: dadams@cray.com (David Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: Proposal: alt.herbalism
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:28:22 GMT
Reply-To: dadams@cray.com
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.


 (The Wolfe of the Den) writes:

|[Note: followup to alt.config only please.]
|
|There have been about 12 or thirteen requests in the past few months for
|a group to discuss herbalism -- the use of vegetable material for
|healing purposes.
|
|Barring any strong objection to the name or the subject matter, which
|should occur via posting to alt.config, I will issue a newgroup control
|message on Wednesday or Thursday, September 9th or 10th. (Well, maybe
|I'll wait until the 14th or 15th for more time. :-)
|
|Please express your opinions on alt.config.
|


WAIT!  WAIT!

The charter for rec.food.historic already invites all such discussion
to take place there.  The rec.food.historic charter is included at the
end of this post.


If you must have a seperate group, why not a group in the rec heirarchy?

How about a rec.food.herbal?

The charter could include other herbal uses such as culinary and others.

Creating a newgroup deserves more thought than a week or two of discussion.







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--David C. Adams  Statistician  Cray Research Inc.  dadams@cray.com
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       Old Sourdoughs never die.  They just ferment away.


Please note the following is not an RFD.  The rec.food.historic
group already exists.



Subject:  RFD rec.food.historic.

Proposed Charter:

        This group is dedicated to discussing and discovering how food
        was made and prepared way back when--From ancient times down until
        (& possibly including or even going slightly beyond) the times when
        industrial revolution began to change our lives in so many ways.
        The emphasis is on re-discovering lost or *out of fashion* historic
        food making arts.  This would include the following subjects as
        well as others:
				

        Historic use of herbs both for food and for medicine.
                Was there any basis for aunt Em's remedies?
                etc.
 
        Winter Storage of Food.
                -root cellaring
                -meat curing
		-historic uses of culturing for preserving food
			brine curing pickles
			cheese making
			soy sauces
			biology of cultured food making.
                etc.

        Old fashioned cooking tools & utensils
                Dutch ovens
		(Maybe someone could give me some more examples here?)
                etc.

        Food history-- pre-modern.
                -not limited to ideas of European origin.

        and many other historic or antiquated food topics.



Status:

        Unmoderated. 

Rational:

	The idea for this group came about mostly from some discussions
	in the sourdough mailing list, by those who found they had some
	common interest in some areas beyond sourdough. 

        This group is not meant to supplant or replace any of the
        groups in the rec.food.* hierarchy, rather it is meant as
        a supplement to all of them.  

 
--David C. Adams  Statistician  Cray Research Inc.  dadams@cray.com
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