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

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 14 May 2002, at 23:49, Gorgeous Muiredach wrote:

> I wish I could help you, but I have really no clue.  Blatte is indeed
> 'roaches, from Latin actually (according to my Larousse Lexique).  I'd
> be interested to know.
>
> I'll drop a note to my dad, he might be able to help find it in his
> mega dictionary of French language.

Thanks, though according to the info I got from Francesco and
Phlip, it seems to have been a garbling of the Arabic.  (Yet another
case of "oil from the spleen".)


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