The life of herbs
When growing up I was always surrounded by interesting herbs but nothing stands out like basil, parsley and mint. My father being an Italian who loves food and being in the culinary industry as a small manager of a market team for Unileaver’s food and beverage department he was never shy to try new things. I can remember growing up and all recipes he stock piled from books and magazines with pride and how excited he was when he found a new recipe to add to the pile. But even with all the things he experimented with nothing comes to mind as vivid as the summer days were we would go visit my aunt with my family and they would walk out to my aunts little garden that she was so proud of and pick fresh sweet basil placing it …show more content…
Greeks also did not consume parsley do to the fact that a weed now known as “anti-parsley or false-parsley” which is identical to parsley and is poisonous for that reson it was no consumed. Instead Parsley was dedicated to the goddess of the underworld Persephone and was used in burials and religious practices. Parsley was also woven into a crown for the winners of the Isthmian games an ancient version of the Olympic games of …show more content…
Specifically peppermint is thought to have originated in the Mediterranean and North Africa as well as found in Egypt were it was so valued the population would treat it as if it was money to pay off debts and make deals. But it is also mentioned in Greek books and their mythology and tied with some of their god’s love affairs between Hades the god of the dead and a human hades wife Persephone was upset so she turned the woman into a plant so that she would be trampled on and eaten by the pigs hades full of regret blessed the plant with a sweet smell in hopes it would keep people from trampling the
When growing up I was always surrounded by interesting herbs but nothing stands out like basil, parsley and mint. My father being an Italian who loves food and being in the culinary industry as a small manager of a market team for Unileaver’s food and beverage department he was never shy to try new things. I can remember growing up and all recipes he stock piled from books and magazines with pride and how excited he was when he found a new recipe to add to the pile. But even with all the things he experimented with nothing comes to mind as vivid as the summer days were we would go visit my aunt with my family and they would walk out to my aunts little garden that she was so proud of and pick fresh sweet basil placing it …show more content…
Greeks also did not consume parsley do to the fact that a weed now known as “anti-parsley or false-parsley” which is identical to parsley and is poisonous for that reson it was no consumed. Instead Parsley was dedicated to the goddess of the underworld Persephone and was used in burials and religious practices. Parsley was also woven into a crown for the winners of the Isthmian games an ancient version of the Olympic games of …show more content…
Specifically peppermint is thought to have originated in the Mediterranean and North Africa as well as found in Egypt were it was so valued the population would treat it as if it was money to pay off debts and make deals. But it is also mentioned in Greek books and their mythology and tied with some of their god’s love affairs between Hades the god of the dead and a human hades wife Persephone was upset so she turned the woman into a plant so that she would be trampled on and eaten by the pigs hades full of regret blessed the plant with a sweet smell in hopes it would keep people from trampling the