>From: Pat Barrett <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 14:44:17 -0700
>
>Tangential to cookware issues is a fact I learned at a nutrition
>conference 26 years ago, perhaps already well-known to List members:
>Native Americans gained a good deal of nutrients from the ashes of
>cooking fires as well as from the minerals picked up from the processing
>of the food on metates.

I understand that the metates (stone grinders) added so much grit that
eating the food ground down their teeth to nubs.  That becomes a health
issue too.
Cas