Xref: utzoo rec.food.cooking:25157 alt.drugs:9875 sci.bio:4580 sci.med:23522 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!unhd.unh.edu!oz!tos From: tos@oz.plymouth.edu (Tom Schlesinger) Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking,alt.drugs,sci.bio,sci.med Subject: Re: Yerba Luisa Keywords: Yerba Luisa, Peru Message-ID: <1991Mar10.194440.20683@oz.plymouth.edu> Date: 10 Mar 91 19:44:40 GMT References: <1991Mar10.024715.9026@sarah.albany.edu> Reply-To: tos@oz.plymouth.edu (Tom Schlesinger) Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H. Lines: 29 In article <1991Mar10.024715.9026@sarah.albany.edu> gav044@sarah.albany.edu (VLACHOS GEORGIOS) writes: >In article eesnyder@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric E. Snyder) writes: >>A friend of mine from Peru sent me a bag of something call "Yerba Luisa". >> >the name of the leaves while the tea itself is called mate. It is one >of the main characteristics of the village, gaucho, way of life. I >am not sure exactly what it is made from but this is the way you >drink it : Just a little extra illustration to add to the previous msg, from which I learned details about mate that I didn't know either: Mate is so popular that lots of people walk around on the street with their mate bottle sort of propped under their arm and the sipping tube in their mouth. I noticed it more in Uruguay, i.e. in Montevideo than in Argentinian cities. In my slides of the Saturday flea market and used book stalls, the majority of men strolling around and browsing are with mate. I imagine the effect must be soothing, calming. Tom Schlesinger BITNET: TOMS@PSC.PLYMOUTH.EDU Social Science Department UUCP(USENET): tos@oz.plymouth.edu Plymouth State College CompuServe: 74226,2167 Plymouth, NH 03264 USA Tel: (603) 535-2498 -- Tom Schlesinger BITNET: TOMS@PSC.PLYMOUTH.EDU Social Science Department UUCP(USENET): tos@oz.plymouth.edu Plymouth State College CompuServe: 74226,2167