Somewhat OT

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

Just returned from Moldova (thanks all for the recommendations on wine, etc.!) and am left trying to figure out, exactly, what the english name for "kizil" is. I know they're berries that only grow in Russia and a few other places, but do they even have an English name?

Thanks.

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[valikv.livejournal.com]

http://lingvo.yandex.ru/en?text=%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BB&l=R.%D1%A0

[liza-now.livejournal.com]

Also look here: http://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?HL=2&L1=1&L2=2&EXT=0&s=%EA%E8%E7%E8%EB (http://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?HL=2&L1=1&L2=2&EXT=0&s=%EA%E8%E7%E8%EB)

[beowabbit]

FYI, I wouldn’t recognize the terms “cornel” or “cornelian cherries” if I read them; I’d need an explanation, or I’d need to look them up in a dictionary.

[dimon37.livejournal.com]

yes, cornelian cherries is the right name for them. Many Russian (and probably other international) grocery stores sell cornelian cherries preserve, for example by Turkish firm KOSKA. Very tasty.
It also grows here, in Boston. There is a lot of the bushes on Memorial Drive.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Cornelian jam! (кизиловое варенье) ... Still fond of that stuff (though I'm indifferent to jams in general.)

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

Agh, you're kidding me! I lived in Boston for three years, working at Harvard, and never knew there were cornelian cherries there? Where exactly? When do they flower/produce fruit?

[dimon37.livejournal.com]

do you know where there is Hyatt hotel on Memorial drive? Near to it is 23-stories highy MIT dorm. Next to that dorm, right on Memorial drive there are tennis courts. Between teh tennis courts and the sidewalk of Memorial drive are high bushes. Those are them. They are ripe ( i think, need to check) end of summer. We usually collect enough to make a few big jars of preserve.