Michael Paterniti

Albanians love topiary and fancy doors. They speak Albanian, an Indo-European language with traces of Greek and Latin - and the lek is their monetary denomination, which trades at one hundred to one on the dollar. Their food is excellent, a melange of Greek, Turkish, and Italian cuisine, all very fresh and legume-y.

American Writer

Mary Tyler Moore

I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person.

American Actress

Jonathan Miles

The South's cuisine is often likened to gumbo - a thick and bubbling melange, spiked with a little bit of this, a little bit of that - yet the metaphor, like the dish, comes from West Africa.

James Blaylock

No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampunk story, 'The Ape-box Affair,' is a sort of melange of Stevenson and P.G. Wodehouse.

American Author

Robert Plant

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.

British Musician

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Design, art, and science are all a melange.

Indian Businesswoman

Use 'melange' to describe a diverse mix, highlighting a rich variety in cultures, ideas, or styles.

Cultural Diversity

'Melange' is perfect for artistic contexts where different genres or techniques are combined.

Artistic Combinations

Beyond tangible items, 'melange' can refer to abstract mixes like emotions or concepts.

Not Just Physical

In geology, 'melange' highlights the complexity and mixed composition of a rock mass, revealing history.

Geological Complexity

When 'melange' is used geologically, it can mean that the rock tells a story of the Earth's past.

Historical Puzzle

In a geological melange, the rocks are typically not uniform but are haphazardly mixed together.

Not Uniform

 This mystical crop also known as “melange” is essential for all space travel, making it the cornerstone of the galactic economy. And it only grows on the desert planet Arrakis, a dangerous and inhospitable world whose native inhabitants have long rebelled against the empire.

Why should you read...

 it is a place of immigrants so one of the things I was trying to capture was the melange of different people's this sort of contrast of traditional and