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Authors: Mercedes Lackey,Eric Flint,Dave Freer

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HERBS & DRUGS
Agaric (Fly Agaric):
Powerful hallucinogenic and psychotropic.
Artemisia:
Source of artisminin, a treatment for malaria.
Belladona:
Deadly nightshade. Psychotropic, also containing atropine, used as a cosmetic or part of a cosmetic to dilate the pupils of women's eyes.
Colt's Foot:
Leaves as wound dressings—anti-inflammatory.
Corn-poppy:
Sedative.
Red and White Clover:
Cough remedy.
Dead-Nettle:
As a tea—a treatment for earache.
Lotos:
Blue and black, hallucinogenics. A drug originally from North Africa, the black is much stronger and enormously addictive.
Lance-leaf Plantain:
Leaves used for poultices and dressings.
Opium:
Commonly available from Turkey and Greece, as a painkiller and soporific, especially mixed with alcohol (laudanum).

 

ITALIAN TERMS
Barene:
Marshy areas with sparse vegetation.
Ciao:
Greeting—hi (also used for parting—good-bye).
Calle:
Street.
Camerata:
Salon.
Canale:
Larger canals.
Ponto:
Bridge.
Fondamenta:
Levee.
Finocchio:
Fennel.
Pasticceria:
Pastry-cooks.
Rio:
Lit. river (narrow canals).
Sotoportego:
A built-over alley.
Velme:
Vast muddy areas.

 

FOOD
Asiago:
Semi-hard cheese.
Boccalao:
Salted dried fillets of cod.
Bruschetta:
Crispy toasted white bread, rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil. It is sometimes served with a topping.
Ciabbata:
Loose-textured country bread.
Castagnaccio:
Chestnut-flour cake.
Coppo ham:
Marinated air-dried neck of pork, rolled.
Cotechino:
Highly spiced pork sausage.
Fagioli stufata:
Stewed beans.
Frittata:
Italian omelette.
Marchpane:
Marzipan.
Pancetta:
Air-dried ham.
Risi e bisi:
A thick soup of rice and young peas.
Sarde:
Sardines.
Taleggio:
Hard cheese.
Toresani:
Pigeon squabs.
Zuppa di fagioli:
Bean soup.
THE END

 

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