SC - a sauce is a sauce is a sauce

[Stephen Bloch]

Adamantius wrote:

> Interestingly enough, the word sauce is derived from the same root as
> salt. It gets really interesting when you get into things like the
> Lord's Salt recipe ... Some
> tranlators prefer the term "salsa" for this type of thing, but that has
> some peculiar associations for us moderns. There's a Spanish or
> Andalusian recipe for eggplants and cheese that calls for Salsa Fina,
> which is more akin to le Menagier's Fine Spice Powder ....

The word "salsa" is used frequently in the medieval Catalan sources to
mean "spices" or any spice mixture.

					mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib
                                                 Stephen Bloch
                                           sbloch at panther.adelphi.edu
					 http://www.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/
                                        Math/CS Dept, Adelphi University
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