Ian Day - A thousand names for eggplant

Someone I know from Grenada called it “balinjan” and apologized for her poor language skills so I decided to look into it.

“Writing the eggplant post last week left me in a quandary. Since I live in the US, calling it eggplant seems natural. But then all through my childhood I called it baingan in Hindi and brinjal in English. Some of my readers from the UK will probably want to call it aubergine, while Australians, I hear, prefer the…”