Whats With All the Tarragon?
I hate the taste of tarragon and can smell it if I am in a five block city radius from someone cooking a dish seasoned with this horrible herb. Lately, I’ve had a succession of meals with tarragon. This herb used to be the rage in the late 1970s and 1980s but mercifully disappeared. It seems to be poised for a comeback. Has the CIA (the Culinary Institute of America) started a new craze? Are trendies sick of cilantro? I just had a salad today in a Greek diner on 86th Street and 2nd Avenue. The salad stunk to high heavens of Tarragon. I had Halibut in Montreal on Saturday which had been bathed in the stuff. What’s going on? Is it all these graduate students who want to interview me? Are they poisoning my food because I won’t discuss the intricacies of the American Wine Distribution system to them? Help! – Joe Dressner 11-15-2006 8:04 pm [link] [10 comments] Attention Graduate Students! Nine graduate students have contacted me in the past two weeks to enlist my aid in their important res
