[Sca-cooks] Is this nigella?

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Stefan li Rous:
>Help! I bought several items this past Pennsic from the Pepperer's 
>Guild. Most I've been able to identify but one I can not. I can't 
>find any kind of receipt but I think this might be nigella looking 
>at their price list and knowing that I bought this because it wasn't 
>something I already had.
>
>Perhaps someone could describe what nigella seeds look like and I 
>can verify this from that? The web photo I found was inconclusive. I 
>may just have to take this to a local Cook's Guild meeting and see 
>if someone there knows what these are.

I'd say nigella seeds look a little like cumin or caraway or anise or 
fennel seeds, except they're maybe a little flattened and dark grey 
to coal black. I often find them in Armenian string cheese, in which 
the moisture from the cheese tends to swell them up somewhat.

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