Smallage or wild celery is a heavily aromatic plant from the Mediterranean basin, and of which the strongly flavoured, pungent leaves are used, it is the wild ancestor of celery and can be used in the same ways, to flavour stocks and soups.
A variety of buffalo fish, a sweet, white, lean freshwater fish; a type of sucker with dark brown skin. It is similar to carp and very versatile and plentiful in the Great Lakes and Mississippi valley.
A name for Margil, a variety of eating apple thought to have been planted in 1680 in a garden at Sheen in Surrey by Sir William Temple, possibly after being brought over from France. By the middle of the 18th century many trees were in the possession of George London of Brompton Park Nursery. It is an aromatic, flushed blushed red apple with some russet which can be wonderful if it gets enough sunshine. This late-season variety is harvested from early October in South-East England and is at its best from October to December.
Rowntree's Smarties, invented in 1937, are small beans of chocolate covered in an assortment of brightly coloured coatings. I always maintain that the orange ones are the best.
