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  • From: Marsha Hanzi <hanzibra@svn.com.br>
  • To: Andy R <lamu@wt.net>
  • Cc: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Backyard extraction of sugar cane juice.
  • Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 07:56:49 -0800

Andy R wrote:
>
> I saw some similar type of machines in Africa, Zanzibar (in Tanzania,
> kinda). Anyway on the main square in Zanzibar they have food vendors and
> they make the fresh Sugar cane juice with Ginger added and (I think lime).
> It was great, always loved it. I also saw fresh cane juice in Mexico.
> These were pushcarts.
>
> However the neatest device was in the countryside in Tanzania where there
> was a big one of wood with these large levers sticking out laterally, damn
> I didn't have my camera. that gave leverage and one woman on each bar
> (because, as we all know, it is the women who do all the serious work in
> Africa). They were making it for a alchohol beverage, I'm pretty sure but
> they were amused and generous to give me a glassful fresh.
>
> Andy
> unfortunately not travelling at the present time.
>
>Well, a lot of our agricultural tradition here in Bahia is African in
>origin-- maybe our sugarcane juice tradition as well.... They put ginger
>in it to avoid giving you a belly-ache-- which I must warn it can very
>easily. The juice is highly fermentable in or out of the stomach




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