Olio vs Salmagundi - What's the difference?
olio | salmagundi |
A rich, thick, Spanish stew consisting of meat and vegetables.
A mixture or medley, a hotchpotch.
A collection of various musical, theatrical or other artistic works; a miscellany.
By extension of the above, Vaudeville or similar miscellaneous musical or theatrical entertainment skits presented between the main acts of minstrel or burlesque shows.
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A food consisting of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.
Hence, any mixture of various ingredients; an olio or medley; a potpourri; a miscellany.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 544:
*:Partly too it reflected the nature of Revolutionary politics throughout the 1790s, which was invariably a kind of inspired bricolage , which involved yoking together a wide range of pre-existent elements into an unanticipated and constantly changing salmagundi of political forms.
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