[Sca-cooks] A Culinary Groaner...

[Laura C. Minnick]

>Variety is the Very Spice
>
>Famed British botanist Lord Ramsbottom successfully hybridized a
>cumin plant with a strain of coriander. The result was a cultivar
>that had a very unusual and highly desirable seed. The plant, when
>exhibited at local shows, won many awards. Lord Ramsbottom was so
>thrilled with his new hybrid that he showed the award-winning herb at
>the Royal Horticultural Society Exhibition at Kew Gardens in London.
>
>One of the visitors to the exhibition was the owner of several
>greengrocer stores around London. His name was Abe Shapiro and he had
>found prosperity in England after emigrating from Minsk and working
>long and hard. Abe's knowledge of the market for herbs and spices was
>legendary and he was asked how he thought the newly developed strain
>would do in the marketplace.
>
>He responded, "Vell, I t'ink it's a vunderful ting, dis new herb. So
>unusual. I can't belief dat mine eyes haff seen the cory, and der
>cumin of da Lord."

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