SC - "paella" originally means 'pan'

Thomas Gloning gloning at Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE
Mon Aug 7 13:39:16 PDT 2000


E. Rain wrote:

> Well it's not the web page I was looking at the other day, but it's the same
> recipe.  Thanks to Anne-Marie for reminding me of where I could find it...
>
> >From Savoring the Past by Barbara Ketcham Wheaton:
> Massialot’s Cuisinier roial et bourgeois 1691
> Widgeon (macreuse) in a ragout with chocolate.

I had to look really hard to find out that a 'Widgeon' is a kind of duck.  Not
to be confused with a pigwidgeon, something else entirely.  [I'm reading too
much Harry Potter... I'm the kind of geek who made Chocolate Frogs for my
friends when the fourth book came out.]

Selene Colfox
selene at earthlink.net


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