Saury. Skipper. Needlefish. A striking, beaked, marine fish up to 45 cm (1ft 6) long, known as skippers, as they leap from the sea to avoid fishing nets.
Edam. An ancient, semihard, ball-shaped cheese made from semi-skimmed cow's milk. It is salted, ripened and coated with red wax. I very mild cheese whose main characteristics are that it is relatively low fat (25%) and easy to slice.
Mandarin oranges. A small orange citrus fruit with skin which can be easily removed and segments which can easily be taken apart. The mandarin and the tangerine are the same thing.
Mangosteen. Lychee like, delicate, white, segmented flesh is surrounded by a hard purplish skin. This round fruit has four well-defined sepals.
Lovage. A large unwieldy herb. Pick the stems off the leaves, tie them and hang them to dry for about 3 days. When crisp, crumble the leaves and store. Good in hotpots. Lovage seeds are used mainly in Indian cooking, and are from a plant of the caraway family. The greenish-brown seeds are a little larger than celery seeds and have a strong aroma of rather coarse thyme. Oregano can be substituted.
Matsutake, the Japanese pine mushroom, a rare and sought after mushroom.
