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Asian Food Primer: Vietnamese Food
by David Johnson Asian Foods Guide Common ingredients and popular dishes of various cultures. IntroductionEast Asia ChinaJapanKoreaMongoliaTibetPacific Region FijiHawaiiPapua New…Brewer's: Aleberry
a corruption of ale-bree. A drink made of hot ale, spice, sugar, and toast. Burns speaks of the barley bree (Anglo-Saxon brin, broth). “Cause an aleberry to be made for her, and put into…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Hermione
HermioneOn a mound an Arab lay, And sung his sweet regrets And told his amulets: The summer bird His sorrow heard, And, when he heaved a sigh profound, The sympathetic swallow swept the…Brewer's: Myrrophores
(3 syl.; the $$$ bearers). The three Marys who went to see the sepulchre, bearing myrrh and spices. In Christian art they are represented as carrying vases of myrrh in their hands.…Brewer's: O'lio
or Oglio. A mixture or medley of any sort. (Spanish, olla, a pot for boiling similar to what the French call their pot au feu. The olio is the mixture of bread, vegetables, spices, meat,…Brewer's: Hungary Water
Made of rosemary, sage, and spices; so called because the receipt was given by a hermit to the Queen of Hungary. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Hunger…Brewer's: Egg-flip, Egg-hot, Egg-nog
Drinks composed of warm spiced ale, with sugar, spirit and eggs; or eggs beaten up with wine, sweetened and flavoured, etc. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Wassail
(2 syl.). A salutation used on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day over the spiced-ale cup, hence called the “wassail bowl.” (Anglo-Saxon, Waes hael, be…Brewer's: Copus
A drink made of beer, wine, and spice heated together, and served in a “loving-cup.” Dog-Latin for cupellon Hippocratis (a cup of hippocras). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Badminton
is properly a “copus cup,” made of claret spiced and sweetened, a favourite with the Duke of Beaufort of Badminton. As the duke used to be a great patron of the prize ring, Badminton was…Trending
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