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[sal'-mah-GUN-dee] 
1. a salad with a mixture of chopped meat, anchovies, pepper, and onions, usually arranged on a plate in rows and dressed with oil and vinegar: "Only a special girl would steal the anchovies from my salmagundi on a first date."
2. a mixture of various ingredients; a potpourri
Origin:
Approximately 1674; borrowed from French, 'salmigondis': seasoned salt meats; from Middle French, 'salmigondin'; probably from Old French, 'salemine': assorted salted meats or fish cooked in wine, from Vulgar Latin 'salamen' + 'condir': to season, from Latin 'condire.' In action:
"Tuesday was Thomas Jefferson's 261st birthday. I wish he were still around so I could invite him for a birthday dinner. I would bake a huge cake ablaze with a candle for each year and I'd plan a menu of his favorite foods. The birthday boy's preferred soup was a savory tomato with chopped fresh herbs and since there is a plenitude of local, ripe tomatoes, I would begin the dinner with this refreshing first course.
Our sophisticated third president loved dinners served buffet style so there would be an array of such dishes as salmagundi, a cold chicken salad with grapes and onions, garnished with anchovies and capers. Guests would be offered a tasty offering of English peas, Jefferson's favorite vegetable along with asparagus, artichokes, sliced tomatoes, eggplant, broccoli and cauliflower. He often demanded that capon with clear gravy be served; also fricasseed chicken, stewed pigeons, mutton cutlets and a glazed rump of beef with a rich wine sauce. Most important would be his favored pasta dish, macaroni and cheese."
Doris Reynolds. "Let's Talk Food: Dandy macaroni ... Mac and cheese is America's oldest comfort food," Naples Daily News (April 14, 2004).
"There are no misfits in Paraguay because in this peculiar salmagundi of a place, everyone fits, more or less. In its hothouse atmosphere, new exotics evolve in grotesque shapes, while insulation has ensured that ancient forms of behavior, including cannibalism, survived here long after their extinction elsewhere. 'Paraguay is not merely isolated, it is almost impenetrable,' Gimlette writes. Those who did penetrate it often found themselves marooned, and the author (a London lawyer and travel writer who originally intended to write a novel about the country) assiduously tracks down these forgotten people: the remnants of the anti-Semitic colony founded by Friedrich Nietzsche's repellent sister and brother-in-law; the fair-skinned, sun-flayed Anabaptists clinging on in a land of poisonous thorns and broiling grit; the Frenchmen running a hotel in the desert in a state of bewildered shock."
Ben Macintyre. "You Don't Want to Live There," [Book Review: 'At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay,' by John Gimlette.] The New York Times (February 29, 2004).
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