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Fish and brewis refers one of the oldest traditional dish of Newfoundland (Canada). The fish is salted cod and the Brewis is made from hardtack or hardbread, which is available everywhere in Newfoundland and in specialized grocery stores across Canada. The dish is always sprinkled with Scrunchions which are fried crispy bits of salt pork.
Friesche Kaas cheese is the name given to a variety of soft cheese in the Netherlands (Holland) that is made from November to May.
Frittilaria lanceloata also called Chocolate Lily or Rice Root refers to a rare herb that is 80 centimeters tall from bulb with numerous rice-like bulblets and flowers are mottled maroon and yellow.
It is used for food: the bulbs were eaten by the Coast Salish, also the Squamish, Sechelt, Halqemeylem and Straits Salish (all in Canada). The bulbs were steamed in pits or boiled. Some have eaten the rice-like nodules on the bulb and reported that they taste vaguely like rice.
It is interesting to note that Frittilaria lanceloata is rare and should not be disturbed if found in the wild.
Coast Salish are a group of ethnically and linguistically related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast who live in British Columbia, Canada and Washington and Oregon States in the United States