PS When I was last on book tour in America and in urgent need of vegetables – always hard to get on the road – I found somewhere to eat that promised Brussels sprouts, only to find that they came coated in that soi-disant Balsamic glaze. I don’t think I’ve quite recovered or ever will
Cress was bad enough, pea shoots are worse. Both are fine things in their own right (especially cress you've grown on a flannel) but as random garnish... No.
This, bagged salad and fucking micro herbs on everything are my restaurant 🚩🚩🚩I used to refuse to go anywhere where the menu was in comic sans but I am learning to be more forgiving, less judgy. #GivePeaceAChance
Pea shoots have been much abused in the last 20 years. Super fresh and with an appropriate dish, fine, but about 95 per cent of the time, give it a rest. The cash and carry has other green stuff.
Comic sans is unforgivable I'm afraid, straight to jail. I adore microherbs but people do need to think. Eg. friend ordered her toddler ice cream after a meal recently and it arrived with them on top. For a 3yr old who is clearly going to take issue with that. Have also seen on a sticky TP desert.
Mixed micro herbs seldom add anything though. It's just super lazy garnish, esp when they're on every damn dish and unrelated in any way at all to what lies beneath. And putting them on icecream, for a child or an adult, is the work of a psychopath.
Can we also add to this list places that add garnish of pea shoots to Every Single Dish on their menu throughout the whole fucking year. I actually love pea shoots and always eat then but why over use it and out of season too?!🤣
I am very overly sensitive to bitterness so I dislike bitter leaves. Rocket is gone as it's peppery rather than bitter but there are many leaves I won't eat! 🤣
I love frisée but it has to be super fresh and beautifully dressed (we all aspire, etc). And storing tomatoes in the fridge should be a prisonable offence.
I would ban balsamic glazes, or at least order the world to have a different idea. Paris is drowning in balsamic squiggles.
I would kill for an egg mayo sandwich with a sturdy garnish of mustard and cress, which is a sort of micro herb, I guess. Us gastronauts grew it in primary school in the 1960s
It's not just the glaze is it, it signifies a whole world view, the canary in the coal mine of "Prepare to enter the 1990s, proceed at your own peril". I love mustard and cress on an egg sandwich bc it really works, not just chucked in there as some entirely random and useless bolt of green.
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I would kill for an egg mayo sandwich with a sturdy garnish of mustard and cress, which is a sort of micro herb, I guess. Us gastronauts grew it in primary school in the 1960s