Sač

Sač is a large metal or ceramic lid like a shallow bell with which bread dough or meat to be baked are covered, and over which ashes and live coals are placed. It enables even, convection baking, and the bell shape allows the steam to recirculate, which makes the meat, fish and vegetables to remain juicy, and the potatoes, and vegetables to intermix their flavors with that of the meat. It is also used for baking bread and traditional pastry like burek and pizza. The bell itself likely comes from bell-shaped ovens used for flatbread baking in middle-east.

Traditionally, the sač was a simple, primitive oven for baking various foods used by less well-off families who could not afford a stove in their homes, and the lid itself often doubled as a plate for flatbed baking. Today, the baking appliance is commonly used by Restaurants all over the Balkan Peninsula, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Greece and Turkey, which have adopted this traditional style of cooking, mostly because of its specific flavor enhancing properties, which enable the food to be lightly smoked, additional to aforementioned convection cooking process. The word sač, can also refer to a dish made of meat, vegetables and potatoes, baked in sač oven.

Åsa

Åsa [pronounced aw-suh] is a female first name in Sweden and Norway. Among the bearers are:

The Norwegian version of the name is Åse.

Åsa is also the name of a village in both Sweden and Norway:

See also

A♯ (musical note)

A♯ (A-sharp), or La Dièse, is the eleventh semitone of the solfege.

This note lies a chromatic semitone above A and a diatonic semitone below B, thus being enharmonic to Si Bémol or B♭ (B-flat).

When calculated in equal temperament with a reference of A above middle C as 440 Hz, the frequency of the A♯ above middle C is approximately 466.164 Hz. See pitch (music) for a discussion of historical variations in frequency.

Designation by octave

Scales

Common scales beginning on A♯

A♯ Major: A♯ B♯ C D♯ E♯ F G A♯

A♯ Harmonic Minor: A♯ B♯ C♯ D♯ E♯ F♯ G A♯

A♯ Melodic Minor Ascending: A♯ B♯ C♯ D♯ E♯ F G A♯

Diatonic scales

A♯ Ionian: A♯ B♯ C D♯ E♯ F G A♯

A♯ Dorian: A♯ B♯ C♯ D♯ E♯ F G♯ A♯

A♯ Lydian: A♯ B♯ C D E♯ F G A♯

A♯ Mixolydian: A♯ B♯ C D♯ E♯ F G♯ A♯

Jazz Melodic Minor

A♯ Ascending Melodic Minor: A♯ B♯ C♯ D♯ E♯ F G A♯