[Sca-cooks] online glossary

Christine Seelye-King kingstaste at mindspring.com
Thu Jun 7 08:12:03 PDT 2001


> 	amber of grece, ambergris
>
> No references to it yet, but I do have a photo of some here:
> http://www.geocities.com/~thorngrove/ambergris.jpg

> Al Servizio Vostro, e del Sogno
> Lucrezia
>

	Ah, I thought I remembered this.  Ambergris is from the stomachs of sperm
whales, and is the undigested bits of cuttlefish beaks and whatnot that sit
in the stomach acids of the whale.  Amazing what we will use for flavorings
and scents, aint it?
Christianna




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