[Sca-cooks] Romanian Cookbook

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 10:28  AM, Patrick Levesque wrote:

> 1 recipe of an unknown vegetable: anghenarii (help, anyone?)

I found one reference to anghenarii on the Web:

http://biblioteca.euroweb.ro/calendar/decembrie2.htm

_If_ the Romanian language bears as much resemblance to Latin as the 
common words seem to indicate, and if, on that page, a word indicating 
spinach shows up just a few words along from anghenarii, and if the 
resemblance of the word "anghenarii" to the word "angon" (which is a 
kind of spear, as I recall, known to the Romans), we might be looking 
at some kind of long/hollow-stemmed, blade-leafed green, like amaranth 
or water spinach. Something mallow-ish.

Or, this could be a worthless gob of speculation. Only time will tell.

There's a Romanian restaurant in my area that I've been looking for 
excuses to visit. Maybe someone there could help, but I doubt I'll get 
there any time soon.

Adamantius