SC - figs

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Jenne Heise sez:
 
> Yes, lovage is period (assuming the period authors were not also
> conflating lovage and smallage). It shows up in a few herbals, and Mrs.
> Grieve's _Modern Herbal_ gives a summary:
> http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/l/lovage42.html

Lovage is also used extensively in Roman cookery, if one can judge from
Apicius, in which pounded lovage appears in, I would guess, at _least_ a
quarter of the cold, uncooked sauces, maybe more.

Adamantius 
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