[Sca-cooks] Quail eggs ( was: no subject)

[Linda Peterson]

I just love the way this list can come up with entertaining trivia spun
off from the most incosequential and unrelated things.

OBF: Looking at the Miscelany's Barmakiyya recipe, what's lavender like as
a cooking herb? I'm feeling doubtful of it as a flavor.

Mirhaxa

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Laura C. Minnick wrote:
> Philomena (Filomena in the Italian) was in Boccaccio's _Decameron_. It was
> the story about a young woman who was raped (ISTR by her sister's husband)
> and was murdered so she wouldn't tell. There was a nightingale involved
> somehow (the nightingale is known by the name). I'd look it up but
> naturally my copy of the _Decameron_ is... (all together now) in storage
> 180 miles away...
>
  mirhaxa at morktorn.com