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prettygoodwordganache (guh-NAHSH) - n., a mixture of heavy cream and chocolate that has been heated and blended, used as an icing or filling.
The stuff inside chocolate truffles. Borrowed some time in the 20th century (dictionaries are disagreeing wildly over when) from French, coined around 1850 (when the stuff was invented, either in France or Switzerland) from Italian ganascia, jowl, ultimately from Greek gnathos, jaw, and wouldn't I like to know how THAT meaning shift happened.
Sorry for cutting doublets week short, but I was out Friday with a cold, and looking at what I had on the plate it's just as well I didn't use them.
---L.
The stuff inside chocolate truffles. Borrowed some time in the 20th century (dictionaries are disagreeing wildly over when) from French, coined around 1850 (when the stuff was invented, either in France or Switzerland) from Italian ganascia, jowl, ultimately from Greek gnathos, jaw, and wouldn't I like to know how THAT meaning shift happened.
Sorry for cutting doublets week short, but I was out Friday with a cold, and looking at what I had on the plate it's just as well I didn't use them.
---L.
