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levin@world.std.com (Levin F Magruder) writes:

>I'm doing what I can to limit this to eastern mass, but I know you'll
>get it in Frankfurt and Singapore.  Sorry.  Note that followup is to
>ne.food. 

>There's a lot of interesting produce around Boston, but it's
>exasperating to shop for because it comes and goes so fast, and you
>can't really call ahead to see if a place has it because there are so
>many places and so many of the shopkeepers don't speak english.

>So, I thought maybe there would be interest in a local produce
>mailing list - just to echo messages like:  "Jan 5 - cardoons and
>good arugula available at Butera's in the north end." "Does anyone
>know where to get batatas?" or "They have this weird root at Asian
>grocery called Beggar Knee, or Pho Hu, does anyone know what you do
>with it?" (Note, I just made up everything here, don't answer or go
>shopping.)

>I'm under the impression that administering an auto-echo mail list is
>a pain, and I don't want to get into it.  If you're interested in
>participating but don't want to run it, just send me mail (no message
>needed, just blank mail).  I won't answer, or tell you if it gets set
>up (watch ne.food for follow up), but if there's interest and no one
>sets up a mailing list, I may go ahead and suffer the pain.

>If the consensus is that "ne.food" is the right place for this sort
>of thing, I'll start posting to it and hope others will, too.

Yes!!!!!! What a wonderful idea.  I think ne.food would be a fine
place for this information exchange.  Given the pain of running an
auto-echo mailing list, and if people want to segregate the
information from this group, perhaps we could have a new group called
something like ne.food.groceries?

In any case, please add me to the list if you do put one together.

Debbie Deutsch