The latest issue (2 June 2000) of the "East Bay Express," a weekly (free) newspaper published in the east San Francisco Bay area (Oakland, Berkeley) has a nice article on avocados in it. The article is on pp. 25-26 of the current issue. The article is titled "Little Grenades of Goodness" and was written by Kristianna Bertelsen, an assistant editor at the "Express." The article is available online now at: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/food/essay_current.html Note: If you wait too long, the link above might not work as the article might be moved to a different address when the next issue comes out - probably on Wednesday. When that happens, you might be able to find it via the "Back Issues" section from their homepage: http://www.eastbayexpress.com The article centers on the food aspects; it is nice and has lots of "avocado lore" in it. Note: the avocado article link above includes recipes but they are non-vegan, non-vegetarian, non-raw. (Would you believe avocado ice cream?) PS if you want to cross-post this note to other mailing lists, please get my permission first. Tom Billings http://www.beyondveg.com