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rachel mccormack
rachel_lothian at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 28 08:17:17 PST 2000
Well, one positive aspect to this whole bruhaha in Trimaris about feasting is
that it has spured me on to start looking up recipes again.
I recently asked what *mastic* is. Well, I found the answer!
Phillipa Seton
THE FOOD OF THE WESTERN WORLD An Encyclopedia of Food from North America and
Europe
Theodora FitzGibbon
Quadrangle / New York Times Book Co.
1976
MASTIC
(Pistacia lentiscus)
An evergreen resinous shrub native to Southern Europe, the sap of which is
used as a culinary flavoring. .... The gum tastes fairly like liquorice, is
obtained by making cuts into the tree bark.
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