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Hi! Adam Walker <carrajena@hidden.email> writes: > I'm looking for the names of some odd spices > (constituens of the North African spice mix, qalat > dagga) in any and all of the Romance languages (and > Arabic!). > > there is a really useful website I usually consult on > spice names which conviniently lists the names of > dozens of spices in dozens of languages, but this time > it has failed me. Some of these "spices" are pretty > strange -- a few I've never heard of in English, or > was, at least, unaware of their use as spices. > anyway, here's the list: > > Ash berry (perhaps black ash berry or mountain ash > berry?) > Belladonna > Chufa nut (also called earth almond, ground almond or > rush nut) > Monk's pepper > Orris root (Florentine giaggiolo?) > Spanish fly beetle (?!?!?) >... Do you know this one? http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/index.html Maybe it was the site you're talking about? (You don't give the URL, so I can't know, sorry if this is redundant.) It has at least Monk's pepper. **Henrik