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the herb so delicate it can't survive being cooked or admired too long
means A delicate, lacy herb with a mild aniseed-parsley flavor, used fresh in French cooking and added at the very end so its taste isn't lost to heat.
from From Old English 'cerfille,' borrowed from Latin 'chaerephylla,' which came from Greek 'khairephullon' — built from 'khairein' (to rejoice, to delight in) and 'phullon' (leaf), so quite literally the 'leaf one delights in.' A fitting name for something that vanishes if you delight in it too vigorously over a hot stove.
- flavor
- Faintly anise, like parsley that read poetry
- french staple
- Core member of fines herbes quartet
- heat fragile
- Loses all flavor if cooked at all
- easter symbol
- Eaten in France for hope and renewal
- fast grower
- Goes to seed within weeks, hates summer