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	Palm wine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Palm wine, also called palm toddy or simply toddy, is an alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm tree.
		Palm wine may be distilled to create a stronger drink, which goes by different names depending on the region (examples are arrack, village gin, and village whiskey).
		Palm wine is generally drunk fairly soon after creation, since it has a short shelf life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palm_wine (467 words)

	The Palm Wine Boys (the CD)
		Palm wine music is a West African style of guitar music, mainly from the countries of Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria.
		Palm wine historically was cheaper and easier to make at home that beer, and so it has been associated with a more rural and working class existence.
		Palm wine music has had a few important musicians that rose from the local nature of the style to record and become known across the region and in some cases internationally.
	www.palmwineboys.com /palmwine.html (1378 words)

	Oil Palm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The mesocarp, from which palm oil is derived, is fibrous and oily, and the seed is opaque white, encased in a brown endocarp; palm kernel oil is derived from seeds.
		Palm oil is used as a replacement for cocoa butter and butter fat, and in ice cream and mayonnaise.
		Palm wine is made by tapping the male inflorescence of the oil palm and fermenting the resulting sap.
	www.uga.edu /fruit/oilpalm.htm (3545 words)

	Palm Fruit Photos
		The pejibaye palm is a native Costa Rican palm.
		Although date palms are naturally pollinated by the wind, this is not an effective method for maximum fruit yield in cultivated orchards, especially since the groves are composed of predominately female trees.
		The watery sap from the trunk is fermented into palm wine, or boiled down into a thick syrup called palm honey or "miel de palma." The edible endocarps are sold in specialty stores as miniature coconuts or "coquitos." Right: Spathe bracts that subtend the inflorescences of the wine palm.
	waynesword.palomar.edu /ecoph10.htm (2632 words)

	The Chilean Wine Palm
		Chilean wine palms thrive in the mediterranean climates of southern California which are so much like their natural range in Chile.
		The palm seeds, called coquitos, are also edible, and the pinnately compound palm fronds were widely used by the indigenous peoples of central Chile as a thatch for constructing shelters.
		Whereas Chilean wine palm cannot be considered to be an endangered species, local conservation groups have taken a strong interest in recent years in promoting reforestation of these palms.
	www.botgard.ucla.edu /html/MEMBGNewsletter/Volume5number4/Thechileanwinepalm.html (1007 words)

	Tropical Palms - Historical role of palms in human culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Palm wine or toddy is an ancient beverage derived from the sap of a number of different palm species, and serves as an appropriate example of a beverage.
		Palm use is recorded within each of 12 product classes developed by Balick and Beck (1990), and all originate from the African ivory nut palm, except for limited food use of the fruits of the Senegal date palm, a rare tree in the area.
		Rodin (1985) asserts that the ivory nut palm is the most useful of all the native plants in Ovamboland; he further states that it is illegal to cut down the palm because of its exceptional value to the local people.
	www.fao.org /docrep/X0451E/X0451e04.htm (6051 words)

	Kew: A year at Kew: Plants: Palms
		The huge specimen of this palm found in the centre of the Temperate House was raised in 1846 from seed collected in Chile.
		In 1862, it was moved from the Palm House to the main block of this house and planted half-way between its present site and the gallery to the west.
		In 1960 this palm was 16.8 m high, in 1985 it had reached 17.67 m (58 ft) and today is believed to be the world's tallest glasshouse plant.
	www.rbgkew.org.uk /plants/palms/kew_chileanwine.html (181 words)

	Palm-wine music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It evolved among the Kru people of Sierra Leone and Liberia, who used Portuguese guitars brought by sailors, combining local melodies and rhythms with Trinidadian calypso.
		Palm-wine music was named after a drink, palm wine, made from the naturally fermented sap of the oil palm, which was drunk at gatherings where early African guitarists played.
		Palm-wine music was first popularized by Ebenezer Calendar and His Maringar Band, who recorded many popular songs in the 1950s and early 1960s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palm-wine_music (163 words)

	Fiction: Palm Tree Bandit, by Nnedi Okorafor
		Not all of the women evaporated when they climbed a palm tree, but the parents of the offender were cautioned and cleansing rituals were performed to appease the gods for her misdeed.
		This was the reason for his comment about the glass of palm wine she was sipping: "You know women aren't even supposed to climb palm trees, let alone drink it when it is sweet," he said.
		The next week she struck again, this time tapping palm wine from one of the trees and leaving the jug at the trunk of the tree.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2000/20001211/palm_tree_bandit.shtml (1709 words)

	Palm Beach Wine Co (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leading national wine educator and writer Clive Hartley is our wine researcher and advisor, and together with the Palm Beach Wine Company team, aim to provide an outstanding supply of niche wines that reflects modern winemaking expertise and traditional terroir.
		Jeremy Oliver awarded the wine 97 points and commented: “A very expressive and classically balanced Eden Valley shiraz whose heady bouquet of pristine flberries and dark plums, cinnamon and cloves, fl and white pepper is backed by coconut ice/chocolate oak and briary suggestions of forest floor.
		The wines are produced from old (50 to 120 years), low yielding Shiraz, Mourvèdre, Grenache and Cinsault vineyards in the Barossa and Eden Valleys with the focus firmly on texture and complexity.
	www.palmbeachwineco.com (4754 words)

	Three Essays on the Kuba of Zaïre
		Man is like palm wine, youth is sweet but without the wisdom of old age, and old age lacks the sweetness of youth.
		The quantity of sap that can be extracted from one palm depends on the mode of extraction used, on palm species, season and the fertility of the soil, but a normal figure may be between 100 and 150 litres of sap over a month's time.
		The limitation by principle of wine drinking to males is one of the formalizations which have been created with regard to wine drinking; another is the emphasis on drinking together, private drinking is condemned.
	www.algonet.se /~claes4/antro/claes8.htm (5311 words)

	Wine Enthusiast Guide Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wine Enthusiast, a magazine devoted to the glories of wine, has come up with an app that will provide enough information to help you make a selection.
		When you select a wine you can tap on a Detail tab where you'll find more information, including the wine's overall ranking, a Wine Enthusiast review, how many cases were produced for that particular year, alcohol content, and the suggested price you should pay.
		Given that hundreds of thousands of bottles of wine are produced each year, the wines listed in the app represent only a fraction of what may be currently available.
	www.landware.com /wineguide/palmos/reviews/archive/techtv/2002-08-04 (985 words)

	African Music - A brief introduction to Palm Wine Music
		Palm Wine music, or as it's know in Sierra Leone, Maringa, dates back to the days when Portuguese sailors introduced guitars to West Africa.
		Palm wine guitarists had a tremendous impact on most of the West African music and their influence can be heard in both High Life and Soukous guitar players.
		Unfortunately, Palm wine music is on the decline, the last well known exponent Sooliman (S. E.) Roogie died in 1994.
	www.alisdair.com /africanpages/africanpalmwine.html (274 words)

	Palm wine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A traditional way to tap palm wine is to collect the sap at the top of the tree.
		The palm wine trees are native to West Africa.
		The process of making palm wine involves an adept climber, piercing the tip of the tree and collecting the sap in a bottle which is left on the tree to ferment for a specific number of days.
	www.mirabilis.ca /archives/002612.html (120 words)

	Fermentation increases the B12 levels in palm wine - The Vegan Forum - a vegan message board
		Palm wine can be consumed in a variety of flavours varying from sweet unfermented to sour fermented and vinegary alcoholic drinks.
		The most frequently tapped palms are raphia palms (Raphia hookeri or R. vinifera) and the oil palm (Elaeis guineense).
		Palm wine has been found to be nutritious.
	www.veganforum.com /forums/showthread.php?t=4092 (157 words)

	From Cambodia to Japan: Memories of Palm Trees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Its unique look is probablly another reason why Palm tree was named national tree of Cambodia, besides the enormous role it plays on the life of Cambodian people(as described by Wanna).
		Sitting on a friend's palm boat, watching my house and the entire village turning into a huge lake was an unforgettable experience.
		And she also said that palm trees grow by themself in our land, and they don't need any care from human at all.
	seserak.blogspot.com /2006/01/memories-of-palm-trees.html (1313 words)

	Palm Beach Wine Co: Wines/Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Belonging to the elite Alliance of Independent Fine Wine Merchants is an assurance that the wines we select are based on quality and value, and a guarantee that we explore both at home and abroad to bring you a comprehensive selection of wines.
		Clive Hartley's Tasting Dozen is a convenient way of selecting a dozen exciting wines that are chosen personally for their outstanding expression of variety and region.
		All four wines are classic examples of their region and have all achieved 93+ scores by the wine press.
	www.palmbeachwineco.com /products (1882 words)

	Chilean Wine Palm
		Adaptation: Chilean wine palms are intolerant of hot, humid tropical or subtropical climates and do not thrive in such places as Florida.
		The elegant, feathery palms are attractive as specimen trees or in avenue plantings.
		In Chile the sap from the trunk is fermented into palm wine or boiled down to a syrup known as palm honey.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~jennc005/DAI527/CaliforniaCultivar/chilwinepalm.htm (569 words)

	Palm Wine Boys live music concert at LUNA in Eugene Oregon
		West African palm wine music and American folk all come together to generate the mellow rhythmic sound of the Palm Wine Boys.
		As with folk and blues, the roots music of North America, Palm Wine Music is the music of the township and village, "…an expression of the day-to-day life of ordinary people, the music of their hearts.
		It was there that Richard Linley, founder of the Palm Wine Boys, learned the style from the master himself.
	www.lunajazz.com /bands/feature_palmwineboys.html (912 words)

	West Palm Wine Storage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		West Palm Wine Storage knows that your wine collection is a long-term investment.
		Dometic is manufacturing Wine Cellars especially for wine connoisseurs who appreciate traditional wine cellars cooling without any vibration, detrimental to the taste and operating in complete silence.
		Our genuine Wine Cellars are especially designed for wine keeping, shelves are built to carry the weight of many bottles, and they have two different circuits for heating and cooling.
	www.westpalmwinestorage.com (202 words)

	Tower Records - Up & Down - Palm Wine Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Palm wine music is West African roots music.
		The Palm Wine Boys fuse the lyrical sensibilities of folk and blues with the guitar lines and rhythms of palm wine music to create a new form.
		The Palm Wine Boys play music of gentle conviviality, soaked in the confidential fluids of the small hours, back country places, front porches, village shade trees, moonshine, and, of course, palm wine.
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=3106237 (1046 words)

	Palm Wine Boys press kit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In its pure form, palm wine music is mostly acoustic played on a couple of guitars and accompanied by percussion.
		The late S.E. Rogie, the "Golden Voice of Sierra Leone", is the godfather of modern palm wine music.
		This subtle mix of acoustic and electric guitar reinvigorated palm wine music and it experienced a resurgence in popularity that took palm wine music beyond the shores of its native West Africa.
	www.wildplum.org /palmwineboys/presskit/bio.htm (1037 words)

	Wine, Wine Tasting, and Art Gallery in Palm Springs, California.
		Palm Springs Wine and Art is introducing a brand new breed of business.
		We are a contemporary wine tasting bar (22 ft. long glass bar), a wine shop, and an art gallery all under one roof.
		We are a family-owned and locally operated wine and art gallery and provide fine wines, wine tasting, and artwork, personalized customer service, and competitive prices.
	www.palmspringswineandart.com (229 words)

	Regional Reports - Ubusulu Palm Wine Carves a Niche
		While the vintage and cultivar of a new wine bottled in KwaZulu-Natal may not be on a par with those of the Cape winelands, Ubusulu Palm Wine is carving a niche for itself.
		Ubusulu Palm Wine is a traditional fermented low alcohol beverage believed to cure ailments such as gout, high blood pressure and impotence.
		It's derived from the sap of iLala (Lala) and iSundu (Wild Date) palm trees that are abundant in the Maputaland area of northern KwaZulu-Natal.
	www.worldfoodscience.org /cms?pid=1001135 (669 words)

	Palm Desktop - Wine-Wiki.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Using the CD that came with my palm (I have a Tungsten T. which comes with v.4.1) it installs OK, but it doesn't run because of a bug in WinMM.
		Shearman investigated using Native Wine for the installation [July 05]: The problem appears to be that the InstallShield installer expects objects in the Running Object Table to be shared between processes, but this is not the case at the moment and is a fairly big piece of work.
		Enable it on your Palm and in hotsync.exe and use pi-nredir(pilot-link package) to redirect the usb port to network.
	wiki.jswindle.com /index.php/Palm_Desktop (894 words)

	Abe, The Oil Palm, Illustrated
		She also adds water to her wine, so one must be careful to avoid the parasites which are often found in water.
		The walls of this palm wine kiosk are made from mats made of palm branches.
		The palm wine continues to ferment through the whole day, so it is sour by afternoon, and not possible to save for the following day.
	www.scn.org /rdi/kw-abes.htm (599 words)

	The Palm Wine Boys
		Acoustic folk, and west African palm wine music come together to make up the mellow rhythmic sound of the Palm Wine Boys.
		Based in the SF Bay Area, the Palm Wine Boys have spent the last two years playing around California, including appearing at the Strawberry Festival, the Wild Iris Festival in Sonoma, the California World Fest in Grass Valley, and numerous radio appearances including West Coast Live.
		They eventually realized that at the heart of the massive sound they were creating were simple songs that were being swallowed up by the desire to make people dance.
	www.palmwineboys.com (321 words)

	Tony Aspler: The Wine Guy
		For the wine lover in your life (and for any friend or family member who's served you one too many bad wines), may we suggest the Tony Aspler - Pocket Wine Cellar, an instant and ever-ready wine expert.
		The Pocket Wine Cellar is the leading wine application available for Palm® handheld computers.
		Please note that the Pocket Wine Cellar is compatible with Palm OS 4 versions but not with Palm OS 5 versions.
	www.tonyaspler.com /pub/palm.asp (267 words)

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