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Post by blueadzuki on Jul 15, 2013 9:44:27 GMT -5
Awesome as always blueadzuki. P.S. Can I come on a pea tour with you one day? Well, if you are ever planning to be in the lower Hudson Valley/ NYC area, email me, and we'll see (no promises) |
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Post by ottawagardener on Jul 15, 2013 20:02:51 GMT -5
Wish I were!
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Post by templeton on Jul 15, 2013 20:05:36 GMT -5
Blue,
I have been checking the Indian stores, and some of the afghan and iranian ones too - but all the dals and pulses i can find are australian or north american. While aust grows lots of different field peas, lentils and the like, they are mostly exported - probably to the sub continent and the middle east. There is one major wholesaler supplying ethnic food stores here it seems, who source their stuff locally rather than import it - maybe cost, or the quarantine restrictions. I haven't checked all the legumes, but chick peas (garbanzos) can only be imported as food if they are split. There is an allowance for a tiny amount of unsplit seed in any lot of split seed imported for human consumption, which I suppose a canny legume grower could exploit with the assistance of a patient overseas co-conspirator, but you would need to be pretty keen to go to the trouble.
Ottawa, It's great that your pale podded pea is so tasty. Lucky find. If it's tasty, blonde and buxom, perhaps Marilyn would a good name?
T
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Post by steev on Jul 15, 2013 21:18:43 GMT -5
Sorry, Dude, she was actually a brunette.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 15, 2013 22:32:58 GMT -5
I haven't checked all the legumes, but chick peas (garbanzos) can only be imported as food if they are split. They might germinate anyway... Especially on something semi-sterile like paper towels. |
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Post by raymondo on Jul 15, 2013 23:44:17 GMT -5
I have been checking the Indian stores, and some of the afghan and iranian ones too - but all the dals and pulses i can find are australian or north american. I used to buy from a Fijian Indian grocer in Sydney that had Indian grown pulses. Must check to see if he's still there next time I'm there. I haven't checked all the legumes, but chick peas (garbanzos) can only be imported as food if they are split. I've sown split peas and split lentils and had a good number of them germinate. It's the half with the radicle that grows. |
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Post by blueadzuki on Jul 16, 2013 6:49:24 GMT -5
Blue, I have been checking the Indian stores, and some of the afghan and iranian ones too - but all the dals and pulses i can find are australian or north american. While aust grows lots of different field peas, lentils and the like, they are mostly exported - probably to the sub continent and the middle east. There is one major wholesaler supplying ethnic food stores here it seems, who source their stuff locally rather than import it - maybe cost, or the quarantine restrictions. I haven't checked all the legumes, but chick peas (garbanzos) can only be imported as food if they are split. There is an allowance for a tiny amount of unsplit seed in any lot of split seed imported for human consumption, which I suppose a canny legume grower could exploit with the assistance of a patient overseas co-conspirator, but you would need to be pretty keen to go to the trouble. Sounds like me and the edible job's tears; my whole ability to get seed relys on the hullers missing a few (or doing them incompletely) and they don't miss much. The processed stuff is hopeless, as jobs tears are not so much hulled as they are "polished" like rice is, so there's no germ left. And of course there's trying to explain what I am doing to vendors who often speak no English (and who are not much pleased with a large foreigner who takes an hour to fill up a bag with a tiny amount of product one tiny scoop at a time.) Actually I've never though of it, but given how I get my seed, it is quite possible that all of the seed I do get is in fact undersized/underdeveloped (since those smaller ones would be the most likely to be able to squeeze between the rollers unpolished. |
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Post by blueadzuki on Jul 16, 2013 6:54:33 GMT -5
Sorry, Dude, she was actually a brunette. That's true Marilyn Monroe was brunette, and Elvis Presley was actually blonde (well blondish brown). "Mae West" maybe? (was she naturally blonde?) |
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