Catherine Tressider wrote:

><< You you could claim so is only evidence of your extreme alienation from
the
> natural world.   >>
>
>Yes, I have to agree with that.  I have little experience of the so-called
>"natural world" having been born and raised in large city (New York) and
>having never been to a farm or been to the woods hunting.  Never even went
>fishing!  The natural world is alien to me,

This Saturday I'm going on my first foraging for food expedition here in
NYC. "Wildman" Steve Brill runs outings in the parks here, and this
Saturday it takes place in Central Park. Others run similar outings in
other parts of the country. More on Steve's outings is in an entry in the
Ethnobotany section of my PaleoDiet.com wen page.

Don.