A plant of the amaranth family with edible leaves, also known as mountain spinach, used as a vegetable in cooking.
From Arabic 'arraq' or Hebrew 'orach', referring to a Middle Eastern plant. The word traveled through Mediterranean trade routes into European languages during the medieval period.
Arrach was so popular in medieval European gardens that it appears in kitchen records of kings and nobles, yet today it's almost forgotten in English-speaking countries while still common in Middle Eastern and Asian cuisines—a victim of culinary fashion changes.
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