[Sca-cooks] A Culinary Groaner...

[Elaine Koogler]

Just what I needed to start the last day of 2007 with!!

I hope everyone has a safe and fun New Year's celebration...and that 2008 is
a fabulous year for all of us!

Kiri

On Dec 31, 2007 6:17 AM, Laura C. Minnick <lcm at jeffnet.org> wrote:

>
> >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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