Einstein's Riddle

[Alex Martelli]

"Mark Yudkin" <myudkin at compuserve.com> wrote in message
news:98kfrl$pug$1 at sshuraaa-i-1.production.compuserve.com...
> Rather than looking at America sites for information about emu's, consider
> that it's an AUSTRALIAN flightless bird, and there's more to it than
eating
> it.

It's an animal of Australian _origin_, just as, say, cows are of old-world
origin; that doesn't imply it's wrong to look for emu information on
American
sites, any more than the species-origin of cows impedes Australian or
American
sites offering interesting bovine information.

And, yes, of course there's more than gastronomy about _any_ animal or
plant.  However, _most_ people's main interests in cows, tomatos, lettuce,
or emus, are quite likely to include culinary aspects (no matter how
fascinating it IS to study a tomato flower's sepals, petals, stamens,
carpels, anther, stigma, &c, for example, it is a biological as well
as a cultural fact that most people would be more interested in
ascertaining the amount of, say, sodium, vitamins, energy, minerals,
dietary fiber, etc, in a 100-gram serving of tomato juice...).


Alex