by herbsocietyofamerica | Jul 5, 2018 | Other Culinary
When Lauren Palsa was eight-years- old she’d mix yard clippings from her Munson, Ohio, backyard into magic potions. The only child of two self-employed parents had a vivid imagination and used these potions to heal her neighbors’ pretend ailments. Twenty-plus years...
by herbsocietyofamerica | Jul 2, 2018 | Other Culinary
After 80 years dominating the herbal liqueur market Jaegermeister has launched –Manifest. Like the original Jägermeister composition, the new herbal liqueur derives flavor from a mixture of herbs, blossoms, roots and fruits. However, master distillers added more...
by herbsocietyofamerica | Jun 27, 2018 | Other Culinary
Thinking of Christmas presents yet? Pick up some colorful peppermint yarn and start knitting or crocheting this year’s gifts. Peppermint fiber has been kicking around textile circles for a bit, but only entered the United States yarn market in June 2017. It’s a...
by herbsocietyofamerica | Jun 25, 2018 | Other Culinary
Tea Time has a new meaning. Mixologists are working with the ancient beverage to craft cool contemporary cocktails. These go beyond mom’s whiskey-spiked cold cure. They go further than the spiked Arnold Palmer, a tea-lemonade-vodka blend known as the “John Daly.” And,...
by herbsocietyofamerica | Jun 20, 2018 | Other Culinary, Pollinators
What smells like a teenage boy’s unwashed socks, is a legendary medicinal plant since the time of the Greeks, and has appeared prominently in the 1974 film version of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express? Valerian. I remember seeing John Gielgud, as the...