[Sca-cooks] "Blattes de Bysance" in the Baghdad cookery book

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

Does anyone who what this mystery ingredient is?  Our cook's
guild is doing Middle Eastern for the next meeting, so I've been
reading through the Anonymous Andalusian and al-Baghdadi.  The
literal translation seems to be "cockroaches of Byzantium".  I
thought I'd seen this discussed somewhere, but a Google search
isn't turning anything up.


Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
rcmann4 at earthlink.net