So, amid argot worthy of a sommelier — green, floral, herbaceous, tea-like — Marshall-Hill tosses out references to terpenes, isobutyrates, esters and anthranilates, terms he has picked up in formal training.
The jasmine tea truffle is herbaceous and floral.
"I see this as a classic American way of engaging with flavors," says Portland, OR, distiller Seth O'Malley of Townshend's, who incorporates Indian black tea, cardamom, and black pepper into herbaceous Italian amaro.
Both series, which have been likened to the work of Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy and Barbara Pym, center on the ebb and flow of rural life: schooldays and festivals; tea parties and flower shows; thatched cottages, herbaceous borders and evocative descriptions of creatures human and non-.
Let battle commence: swishing crinolines against sleek cocktail gowns, herbaceous borders against snowy Alpine peaks, gun battles against venomous gossip over the tea tables.
Lipton is following the lead of American businesses like Harney & Sons, Mighty Leaf, Adagio and the Highland Tea Company, which for several years have sold tea bags filled with high-quality full-leaf teas, ones with complex, often floral, herbaceous, spicy or fruity nuances.
Herbaceous perennials benefit particularly.
Talk about herbaceous Borgias.
Next, shrubs and herbaceous perennials.
Flax is an herbaceous annual.
Both were small herbaceous plants.
