Black grouse. Heath cock. It lives on moors, near trees and likes marshy ground with rushes, stands of trees and rocky, heather-covered hills. Game birds which are trussed and roasted like a chicken. They can be shot from 20th August to 10 December although the season starts on 1st September in parts of the south. They can be hung for up to ten days. Like grouse, they are occasionally called moorgame, moorfowl or moorcock.
The black goby is the most common of the gobies fished in the Mediterranean, though also found in the Black Sea and Atlantic, and are generally fried, though they may be fried and then added to other simmered dishes.
Black, also known as purple or red, grapes were the original grape, from which white grapes are derived. Black grapes were originally brought under cultivation in the region of southern Turkey and there are pictorial records of them under cultivation for wine in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.
Black peppercorns, the fruit of a perennial vine with large leaves and white flowers. Green peppercorns are the unripe fruits picked early and pickled. Black peppercorns are picked just before they ripen and white peppercorns are the ripe, black peppercorns with the black skin flaked off. They are best kept whole and ground when required. Historically, pepper was one of the world's most important spices. Columbus sailed West, not East, in search of pepper in the East Indies. Instead he found the Americas and allspice.
A variety of mild-flavoured grouper fished in the South Atlantic.
Black grouse. Heath cock. It lives on moors, near trees and likes marshy ground with rushes, stands of trees and rocky, heather-covered hills. A game bird which is trussed and roasted like a chicken. It can be shot from 20th August to 10 December, although the season starts on 1st September in parts of the south. They can be hung for up to ten days. Like grouse, they are occasionally called moorgame, moorfowl or moorcock.
A variety of hake: a long, lean member of the cod family. Although they can grow up to 1 meter (3 ft) in length, the average size now is about 30-50 cm (12-30 inches). They are found in temperate and cold waters. During the day they lurk on the bottom, but rise in the evenings to hunt for fish such as herring and mackerel.
