zingara

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The rice-salad concept applied to shrimp zingara is a lively, spicy hit.

From New York Times

This massive revision of the Culinary's basic text, the first since 1974, contains nearly 700 recipes for everything from andouille sausage to zingara sauce, sometimes in single portions but more often in sufficient quantity to feed a hungry mob of 20.

From Time Magazine Archive

His finest works were produced after this date,—“The Bohemian Girl,” in 1843; “The Enchantress,” in 1844; “The Rose of Castile,” “La Zingara,” and “Satanella,” in 1858; and “The Puritan’s Daughter” in 1861.

From Project Gutenberg

His Grace, the Archbishop of York, with his usual discernment, suggested to me, the probability that the Zingara here spoken of, may have derived their name, and perhaps their origin from the people called Langari, or p. 139Langarians, who are found in the north-west parts of the Peninsula of Hindostan, and infest the coasts of Guzerat and Sindy with their piratical depredations.

From Project Gutenberg

In page 387 of the same volume, are collections on the Zingara, or Gypsey language, by Jacob Bryant, Esq. transmitted to G. Salusbury Brereton, Esq. in a letter from Doctor Douglas, read 1785: This learned traveller, when in Hungary, had taken from the mouths of Gypsies, specimens of their language, which occupy seven pages. 

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