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Article: Summer snipping: Fragrant sprigs of three herbs can jazz up season's meals
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- September 13, 2009
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They've been indispensable in the kitchen since ancient times,
those grassy little green bits we call herbs. Fact is, it's nearly
impossible to find a culture from long, long ago that didn't have
strict rules about when and how to pick 'em. Old tomes even
prescribe the planetary considerations for herbal plucking. Pick
when in full bloom, insists one ancient code. In the morn, declares
another. Only at night. When Leo, Capricorn or Cancer are high in
the heavens.
We say, aw, heck, pick 'em now, any way you wish, when summer's
at its headiest.
There is nothing so fine, any season, as the sweet, soft scent of
an herb, fresh-snipped from the back forty or a windowsill pot. Even
ferried home ...
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