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Article: Herbs; NO 39: PARSLEY
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2000
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OGDEN NASH, desperate for a rhyme, chained parsley to "garsley"
and did one of our most agreeable and useful herbs a cruel injustice.
I can't, after seeing a plump wall of parsley sprouting up to make a
perfect border for our vegetable patch, feel anything less than love
for it. Parsley is easy to grow, good to taste and, growing like a
tiny yew hedge beside the ranks of carrots, a glory to behold. It's
also, as we all know, the best cure for smelly breath ever to have
been discovered. Garsley? How could he?
Parsley, apparently, first sprang up where the blood of Archemorus
stained the ground after he was devoured by a serpent. The herb was
traditionally linked to this hero - the harbinger ...