Spot The Frippet: zest.

The zest of a citrus fruit is the outside thin brightly-coloured layer.

Zest is full of intense flavour, sometimes pleasant (orange):


photo by Dvortygirl

 and sometimes not seen as quite so universally moreish (lime):

These are kaffir limes. Photo by David Monniaux

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It's all pretty strong-tasting.

The intensity of zest's flavour has given us the word for the capacity to relish life, the universe, and more or less everything.

To be keen as mustard, in fact.

I hope you find a bit of zest for something today.

Spot the Frippet: zest. This word comes from the French zeste, the peel of a citrus fruit used as a flavouring. Wiki suggests that before that it comes from the Greek sgizo, meaning to split or cleave, but other dictionaries aren't convinced about this.

Zest, relish, mustard...you can tell we love our grub!