[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 4, Issue 27

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Angelica is lovage ??  I don't know what folk names the author was accustomed 
to, but angelica is not lovage. Lovage is good to use where celery is called 
for, especially in stews where it can cook properly as fresh lovage, even 
finely chopped can be rather coarse in texture, as in it feels like you are 
chewing on maple or oak leaves.

Yea, angelica does somewhat resemble lovage in the garden as it  also grows 
tall and has hollow stems also and "cut" foilage if I recall from also killing 
it about five years ago, but culinary uses the same as lovage ??  Certainly 
not in the other modes of herb usage that I know of.  Bees probably love the 
flowers of both - "lovage is an apiaceous herb", but bees love the flowers of 
most herbs.

Olwen Bucklond
plant killer extraordinarie

> From: "Elise Fleming" <alysk at ix.netcom.com>
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Lovage vs Angelica??
> 
> Greetings.  In an article about lovage, the editor equates it with
> angelica and writes "Remember, angelica is lovage."  The dictionary
> says that lovage is an apiaceous herb, "Levisticum officinale" and
> that angelica is an umbelliferous plant of the genus  Angelica, esp.
> A. Archangelica".  Therefore, these two can't be the same, can they?
> Do the two look alike?  Taste alike?
>