SC - Fw: Eggplant

[Alderton, Philippa]

Anybody want to answer this gentleman? Cariadoc?


Phlip

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Philippa Farrour
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Southeastern Ohio

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- -----Original Message-----
From: Steve Balestra <bale002 at pn.itnet.it>
To: BYZANS-L at lists.missouri.edu <BYZANS-L at lists.missouri.edu>
Date: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: Eggplant


Hi All,

While we're on this subject, the standard Italian
word for eggplant is 'melanzana' which seems to be related
to the Greek word for 'black', while in some southern Italian
dialects the word is 'mulingnàn' (not sure if more closely
associated with Sicilian, Napolitano or Barese).  Can any
one suggest an etymology for the latter?  Perhaps Arab?
Where does eggplant come from, by the way? Was it
cultivated in the Meditteranean area in ancient times or
was it introduced to Europe at a later date?

In any case, eggplant is good sliced and fried in
olive oil and then baked in the oven in layers with tomato
sauce, mozzarella and parmigiana cheese in between and
on top.

Steve


At 00:17 01-03-2000 +0100, you wrote:
>
>If anyone is interested, Patlagian is the Bulgarian word for eggplant, and
>Baklagian is the Russian one. By
>the way Mr. Zeidner, that Mpack document you sent re hostages was rather
>interesting - thanks a lot.
>
>
>Francesco Dall'Aglio  <frdallag at tin.it>
>