[Sca-cooks] what is 'shuniz'?

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jun 25, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Volker Bach wrote:

> (apologies for the crosspost)
>
> I am trying to reproduce 'Milh Mutayyab' spice mixture and I am  
> wondering
>  about one ingredient. Arberry's translation renders it as  
> 'shuniz'. In the
>  Perry translation of the 'Description of Familiar Foods' a  
> parallel recipe
>  lists the same ingredients, but in place of 'shuniz' it has nigella.
>
>  Is it reasonable to assume 'shuniz' is nigella?
>
>  Grazie
>
>  Giano

See http://www.thecookinginn.com/herbs/npage.html#N2

Adamantius (coming up with excuses not to leave the house yet, but  
leaving now... honest)