A soft goat's milk cheese from the Midi-Pyrénées. Eaten when they turn pink and at their best from April to November.
"Rock." A small, knobbly, sea snail or whelk, related to the murex, the shellfish famous for the production of the rare and expensive imperial purple, from southern France.
Murex. A knobbly sea snail or whelk. This mollusc was the source of the rare and expensive imperial purple.
Anatto. A food colouring extracted from small reddish-brown seeds contained in a prickly seed pod, the fruit of a tropical South American tree. Although edible, it has little flavour and its culinary value is on the whole limited to colouring properties. It is used to give yellow-red colour to charcuterie, Edam, Mimolette, Cheshire and Cheddar cheese, and dried fish such as haddock as well as pastries, sweets and butter. In some places the seeds are fried in lard to impart their red colour and then discarded. The fat is then cooled and used for cooking and colouring other foods.
