A Salmagundi (or Salmagundy or Salmi, for short) is an elaborate Elizabethan salad (sallet), a grand plated presentation comprising many disparate ingredients, arranged in layers or geometrical designs on a plate or mixed, and typically including cooked meats, seafood, vegetables, fruits, leaves, nuts and flowers (broom, violet and rose-petals for example) and dressed with oil, vinegar and spices.
In other words a hotch-potch. Salmagundi is now used figuratively to mean just that, a mixture or assortment of things. Much as I hope my blog will develop...
The title script is based on that I saw on an early 18th Century side-board in Rye.
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