Salema. A prime, bream-like, food fish found in warmer waters of the Atlantic, the Pacific and Indian Ocean.
Salep is the dried root of an orchid and the name of a beverage brewed from flour made from it, popular in the Middle East. It is also used rather as sago is used..
A rich, round, brioche-like bun enriched with eggs and butter, but only slightly sweet. It originated in Bath where it was served at Sally Lunn's house from 1680. Sally Lunns are still made, but the recipe is kept secret.
Equivalent to 12 bottles, 9.6 litres (20.16 pints), of champagne. The full list is: Magnum (2), Jeroboam (4), Rehoboam (6), Methuselah (8), Salmanazar (12), Balthazar (16) and Nebuchadnezzar (20).
The salmon is a migratory fish which always returns to its spawning grounds. This creates a hiatus of returning fish in good fettle for mating. The ones that succeed in the race up-river may have climbed salmon ladders, leaped up cataracts and other hazards. Waiting for them are likely to be fishermen, bears and other predators, keen to feast on the wonderful pink flesh of the wild salmon. Most is now farmed and lacks the musculature that renders the wild salmon so particularly tasty.
A long, thin, green variety of chilli with a red tip from Senegal.
A variety of mushroom similar to the saffron milk cap. Associated with spruce trees, it remains a pure orange. It is collected from the end of summer to autumn exclusively from silver fir (Abies alba) forests and commonly eaten.
