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Article: A harvest in good taste Garden, kitchen can be enlivened with fresh herbs
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 6, 1999
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I eat, therefore, I cook!
And since I love to eat well, I cook carefully.
I don't profess to be in the "gourmet" class, but I strive for
tasty, well-prepared foods with a lot of flavor.
At my weekend home in Michigan, I'm able to harvest fresh herbs
from a south-facing, 20-by-3-foot bed behind my garage. I planted
climbing roses and clematis in the back of the border above the
culinary herbs I use most often.
I get a real kick out of being able to pop outside the mud room
and cut the fresh herbs I need for the next meal, and there's no
question that even simple recipes taste better when you use herbs
that are just a few minutes old.
Since I have a big back porch with wide steps going down to ...