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1. Re: Adlay or Job's tears: December millet-of-the-month
(Don Osborn)
2. Re: Adlay or Job's tears: December millet-of-the-month
(Don Osborn)
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Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2023 10:15:31 -0500
From: Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org>
To: collab@lists.millets2023.space
Subject: Re: [Collab] Adlay or Job's tears: December
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On the recent history of adlay / Job's tears, here are a couple of notes:
First, it turns out that the proposal to use "adlay," a term from
the Philippines, for the food grain of Coix lacryma-jobi came in 1920 from
a Swedish-American sgtivultursl botanist. This I learned from a 1952
article I came across in earlier research./1
Peter J, Wester (1877-1931)/2 spent the final two decades of his life in
the Philippines, during which he did various research and writing on
tropical crops. I was unable to access a copy of his 1920 article./3
However, I did find a 1922 article of his on the subject of adlay, of which
the first page is freely accessible online as a "preview."/5
Second, the 1952 article mentioned above/1 was by Reimar von Schaaffhausen
and includes various observations about adlay as a crop, including what he
described as interest in it in Brazil. It would be interesting to know what
became of that optimism./5
I'm not sure how adlay, with its larger grain size and growth preference
for more humid zones, became grouped with the millets. However, since it is
in the group, it definitely seems worthy of more attention. The previous
efforts over the last century to promote it over the past century seem to
have had only modest and localized effect.
Don
DO, EL, MI, US
NAMA
Notes:
1. Reimar v. Schaaffhausen. (1952). Adlay or Job?s Tears: A Cereal of
Potentially Greater Economic Importance. *Economic Botany*, *6*(3),
216?227. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4252082 (by setting up a free JSTOR
account, you can view 100 articles online per month)
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jansen_Wester
3. Wester, P. J.. Philipp. Agr. Rev. 14: 217.1920.
4. Wester, P.J. (1922) "Adlay ? A New Grain Plant From the Orient: A
Relative of Indian Corn Found in Eastern Asia in a Great Number of Varietal
Forms ? Offering an Untouched Field of Work for the Plant Breeder." *Journal
of Heredity*, Volume 13, Issue 5, May 1922, Pages 221?227,
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a102209
5. Another article on adlay in Brazil from the early 1950s is one by G.P.
Viegas, "Aspectos da cultura do cereal 'Adlay"' for which the summary can
be read at https://www.scielo.br/j/brag/a/sNrFHZKF77yRJb46XXJjkyG/
On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 4:09?PM Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org> wrote:
> Adlay or Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi) is our millet-of-the-month in
> December. Adlay is native to southeast Asia (the name "adlay" is from the
> Cebuano language of the southern Philippines), and its cultivation and use
> have spread north and west in Asia. It is not to our knowledge grown at
> scale in North America, but there are growers who produce small quantities
> of seed in the US, some of whom use them as ornamentals of for crafts.
>
> Adlay is a tall plant, domesticated varieties of which apparently can be
> cultivated as a perennial in warm climates. It grows best in more humid
> settings. The seeds hang in a way that inspired botanist Carl Linnaeus to
> give it the specific Latin name that we have in English as "Job's tears.".
>
> The seeds of most varieties are larger than those of other grains
> considered millets, being roughly the size of a corn kernel, usually very
> pale in varieties cultivated for food, but in other varieties, can
> apparently be gray or reddish. Botanically, adlay is in the Andropogoneae
> "tribe," along with corn, sorghum, and the little-known Taiwan oil millet
> (more on the latter in another post).
>
> As a food it can be cooked as one would cook rice, or in soups. I
> personally just recently tried some and it's quite good. The flavor is a
> bit ricey, with its own character. You might see it in a market as "Chinese
> barley," but it is *not* closely related to true barley.
>
> Adlay is also used to make a tea, and brewed for an alcoholic beverage.
>
> Various parts of the plant have found uses in traditional medicine of
> several cultures, and the dried seeds of some varieties are also used as
> beads. The plant is sometimes grown as an ornamental.
>
> Here are a few links for more information:
> * General information
> ** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%27s_tears
> ** https://www.britannica.com/plant/Jobs-tears
> ** https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.15648
>
> * Culinary aspects of adlay
> **
> https://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/jobs-tears-you-need-to-check-out-this-power-ingredient-recipe.html
> **
> https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/trends-news/article/jobs-tears-grain-recipes
> ** https://youtu.be/lFJ9HZWOiKU
>
> * Adlay in the US
> ** https://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1714
> ** https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/coix-lacryma-jobi/
>
> * Medicinal aspects of adlay
> ** https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1164/jobs-tears
> ** https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3942904/
>
> * Ornamental uses of, and seeds for, adlay
> ** https://www.rareseeds.com/job-s-tears
> ** https://sowtrueseed.com/products/jobs-tears
> **
> https://southernseedexchange.com/products/jobs-tears-10-seeds-gluten-free-grain-used-in-jewelry-making-ornamental-grass-coix-lacryma-jobi
>
>
> Don Osborn, PhD
> (East Lansing, MI, US)
> North American Millets Alliance
>
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Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2023 10:22:44 -0500
From: Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org>
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Subject: Re: [Collab] Adlay or Job's tears: December
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* agricultural (sorry for the imperfections in the text)
One other note about the name "adlay" - some sources have it as being from
Cebuano language, and others Tagalog.
DO, EL, MI, US
NAMA
On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 10:15?AM Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org> wrote:
> On the recent history of adlay / Job's tears, here are a couple of notes:
>
> First, it turns out that the proposal to use "adlay," a term from
> the Philippines, for the food grain of Coix lacryma-jobi came in 1920 from
> a Swedish-American sgtivultursl botanist. This I learned from a 1952
> article I came across in earlier research./1
>
> Peter J, Wester (1877-1931)/2 spent the final two decades of his life in
> the Philippines, during which he did various research and writing on
> tropical crops. I was unable to access a copy of his 1920 article./3
> However, I did find a 1922 article of his on the subject of adlay, of which
> the first page is freely accessible online as a "preview."/5
>
> Second, the 1952 article mentioned above/1 was by Reimar von Schaaffhausen
> and includes various observations about adlay as a crop, including what he
> described as interest in it in Brazil. It would be interesting to know what
> became of that optimism./5
>
> I'm not sure how adlay, with its larger grain size and growth preference
> for more humid zones, became grouped with the millets. However, since it is
> in the group, it definitely seems worthy of more attention. The previous
> efforts over the last century to promote it over the past century seem to
> have had only modest and localized effect.
>
> Don
>
> DO, EL, MI, US
> NAMA
>
> Notes:
> 1. Reimar v. Schaaffhausen. (1952). Adlay or Job?s Tears: A Cereal of
> Potentially Greater Economic Importance. *Economic Botany*, *6*(3),
> 216?227. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4252082 (by setting up a free JSTOR
> account, you can view 100 articles online per month)
> 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jansen_Wester
> 3. Wester, P. J.. Philipp. Agr. Rev. 14: 217.1920.
> 4. Wester, P.J. (1922) "Adlay ? A New Grain Plant From the Orient: A
> Relative of Indian Corn Found in Eastern Asia in a Great Number of Varietal
> Forms ? Offering an Untouched Field of Work for the Plant Breeder." *Journal
> of Heredity*, Volume 13, Issue 5, May 1922, Pages 221?227,
> https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a102209
> 5. Another article on adlay in Brazil from the early 1950s is one by G.P.
> Viegas, "Aspectos da cultura do cereal 'Adlay"' for which the summary can
> be read at https://www.scielo.br/j/brag/a/sNrFHZKF77yRJb46XXJjkyG/
>
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 4:09?PM Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Adlay or Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi) is our millet-of-the-month in
>> December. Adlay is native to southeast Asia (the name "adlay" is from the
>> Cebuano language of the southern Philippines), and its cultivation and use
>> have spread north and west in Asia. It is not to our knowledge grown at
>> scale in North America, but there are growers who produce small quantities
>> of seed in the US, some of whom use them as ornamentals of for crafts.
>>
>> Adlay is a tall plant, domesticated varieties of which apparently can be
>> cultivated as a perennial in warm climates. It grows best in more humid
>> settings. The seeds hang in a way that inspired botanist Carl Linnaeus to
>> give it the specific Latin name that we have in English as "Job's tears.".
>>
>> The seeds of most varieties are larger than those of other grains
>> considered millets, being roughly the size of a corn kernel, usually very
>> pale in varieties cultivated for food, but in other varieties, can
>> apparently be gray or reddish. Botanically, adlay is in the Andropogoneae
>> "tribe," along with corn, sorghum, and the little-known Taiwan oil millet
>> (more on the latter in another post).
>>
>> As a food it can be cooked as one would cook rice, or in soups. I
>> personally just recently tried some and it's quite good. The flavor is a
>> bit ricey, with its own character. You might see it in a market as "Chinese
>> barley," but it is *not* closely related to true barley.
>>
>> Adlay is also used to make a tea, and brewed for an alcoholic beverage.
>>
>> Various parts of the plant have found uses in traditional medicine of
>> several cultures, and the dried seeds of some varieties are also used as
>> beads. The plant is sometimes grown as an ornamental.
>>
>> Here are a few links for more information:
>> * General information
>> ** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%27s_tears
>> ** https://www.britannica.com/plant/Jobs-tears
>> ** https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.15648
>>
>> * Culinary aspects of adlay
>> **
>> https://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/jobs-tears-you-need-to-check-out-this-power-ingredient-recipe.html
>> **
>> https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/trends-news/article/jobs-tears-grain-recipes
>> ** https://youtu.be/lFJ9HZWOiKU
>>
>> * Adlay in the US
>> ** https://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1714
>> ** https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/coix-lacryma-jobi/
>>
>> * Medicinal aspects of adlay
>> ** https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1164/jobs-tears
>> ** https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3942904/
>>
>> * Ornamental uses of, and seeds for, adlay
>> ** https://www.rareseeds.com/job-s-tears
>> ** https://sowtrueseed.com/products/jobs-tears
>> **
>> https://southernseedexchange.com/products/jobs-tears-10-seeds-gluten-free-grain-used-in-jewelry-making-ornamental-grass-coix-lacryma-jobi
>>
>>
>> Don Osborn, PhD
>> (East Lansing, MI, US)
>> North American Millets Alliance
>>
>
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