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

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 15 May 2002, at 1:15, Barbara Benson wrote:

> I have always thought that dried dates, when you pit them and squash
> them flat, look alot like the Cockroaches we had when I lived on the
> coast of South Carolina. Commonly known as Palmetto Bugs.
>
> Probablly not what they are talking about tho.
>
> -Serena da Riva

Probably not.  Although one of the Arabic cookbooks keeps
referring to black plums as "cow's eyes".


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