SC - Spice names - oh, and hi.
Jessica Tiffin
JESSICA at beattie.uct.ac.za
Fri May 2 11:26:45 PDT 1997
Greetings, gentle cooks.
I hail you as Melesine de Huguenin, a rather inexperienced Mistress of
Arts to the Shire Incipient of Adamastor, in the Cape region of South
Africa. We're starting pretty much from cold in Adamastor (part of
Drachenwald, albeit in the furthest stretches of a continent hitherto
associated only with Monstres and shipwreck), as only two of our
members have any previous SCA experience at all. Pray forgive me if
any of my queries to this list sound obvious or have been answered
millions of times before. We're pretty new to this. I'll try to be
intelligent.
I'm co-ordinating food for monthly Events, and have a reasonable
selection of recipes from various sources (including Cariadoc's
wonderful Web site collection). The major headache just at the
moment is spices. South Africa badly lacks the specialist spice
shops apparently rife in the USA and Europe; any spice shops down
here are Indian in flavour. I'm having huge problems laying my hands
on cubebs, grains of paradise and the like. Would anyone happen to
know alternative, preferably Indian, but at a pinch Latin names for
these spices? I found galingale lurking in an Indian shop disguised
as something called galangal, and am hoping others may exist.
Thank you,
Melesine
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- James Thurber
Jessica Tiffin jessica at beattie.uct.ac.za
Department of English, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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