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THE POWER OF SUMMER HERBS By Marci Moreau If someone asked me to choose a favorite aroma, it would
My grandmother was not the first one to fall in love with
be a toss-up between parsley and sunscreen on a baby,
the power of summer herbs. Used as medicine for thou-
probably because they both remind me of summer. Sum-
sands of years, because of their anti-bacterial, anti-viral, or
mer always brings me back to our tiny beach house that was
as I like to say, anti-everything properties, herbs have been
truly a small house that held hundreds of people, and also
recognized by most every culture as a powerful source of
platters of stuffed peppers, reused ricotta cheese containers
healing and to enhance culinary dishes. And in the intense
filled with homemade tomato sauce, but mostly bunches
heat of the summer months some of the most powerful
and bunches of parsley and fresh herbs, wrapped in damp
herbs grow in abundance and do their best work.
paper towels to keep them from wilting. I always knew when my grandmother and flock of aunts
Parsley tops the list, and not only because I am biased, it really is a champion, especially when it comes to chlo-
on
rophyll and api-
morn-
genin. Chlorophyll
ings. The smell of
helps to give plants
fresh grassy pars-
their green color
ley, spicy basil and
and absorb energy
flowery
rosemary,
from the sun, and
danced
into
my
apigenin, a plant
bedroom and woke
compound, or phy-
up the house bet-
tochemical, as we
ter than any rays of
say in the nutrition
morning sun ever
world,
could.
more than abun-
arrived, Saturday
early
The flat, or Ital-
summer
ian
herbs and she used
parsley,
has
more flavor than
them in everything.
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both
dant in parsley.
My grandmother loved
are
She sniped them with scissors, or as she told me, “gently rip
its curly counterpart, so it is most often used in food
them into pieces and sprinkle them just like confetti.” When
preparation, but when it comes to the ability to detox the
I asked her, “Sprinkle them where, grandma?” She smiled,
liver, promote bone and eye health, and boost immunity,
and said, “Everywhere.”
they both deliver huge results.
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