Flat lobster. A variety of lobster with a flat tail, shaped somewhat like a slipper, which is the edible part. It makes a noise like a cricket. The Mediterranean slipper lobster is generally used for flavouring soups as it does not carry much meat.
Spider crab. This is a crab with little meat but what it has is well-flavoured. It has a large, oval spiked body and long, thin spidery legs, hence its name.
A drink made from iced water mixed with yoghurt, chopped mint and salt or sugar with double cream (US: heavy cream).
Whiting. A member of the cod family with flaky, firm sweet flesh. It used to be called marling or merling.
Baklava is a Middle Eastern pastry made of multiple, very thin layers of sweet phyllo-style pastry stuffed with chopped, grilled almonds, walnuts and pistachios, cooked with butter and oil and drenched with honey. It is usually cut into diamond-shaped lozenges The crisp yet moist finish is achieved by pouring hot honey onto cold pastry or cold honey onto hot pastry.
"Lamp", so-called because it bears a resemblance to the shape of an oil-lamp. Monkfish (US: angler fish). A fish with a sweet flavour and succulent firm flesh but with the ugliest appearance imaginable. It is found in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, in coastal waters of north western Europe. It can be recognised by its large head and fan-shaped fins. The fins and the operculum are spiny. It can be eaten fried or in soup. The larger fish often have better flavour. It has a hideous head, which is why it is usually displayed without it, and a muddy colour. It is known as the anglerfish as it bears on its head a 'rod' and 'lure' which attract its prey. The meat of the tail is sweet and succulent - almost like lobster meat, entirely compensating for is appearance. The flavour may well be assisted by its own diet which is high in shellfish. The best monkfish are Lophius piscatorius and the similar Lophius budegassa, the favourite of the Spanish. American monkfish or goosefish (Lophius americanus) is considered inferior, while New Zealand monkfish (Kathetostoma giganteum) is related to the stargazer and is only fit for soup.
