SC - ancient pasta

[david friedman]

At 8:58 AM -0400 10/3/99, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

>Approaching this from another angle, if not any more impeccable, I refer
>you to the English recipes for loseyns, which appear as though they
>might be named for the pasta cut into a certain size and shape.

I'm pretty sure I remember a PPC article, possibly by Charles Perry, that
was arguing that the causation ran the opposite direction. The recipe name
was supposed to be derived from the Arabic name of a similar Islamic
recipe, and the name of the shape from the recipe name.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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