Some of the more whimsical ones included "hig candlewick", "indian rag weed", "bullicks lungwort", "Adams-rod", "hare's-beard" and "ice-leaf".
At A.L.B. (Arlo Lobby Bar) in New York City, this cocktail is made with lychee, Thai chile, ginger, Calamanasi, shiso and lime and garnished with three dashes of Peychaud's bitters over the ice, shiso leaf, and ginger candy.
Fresh salt-stressed ice plant leaf tissue was frozen in liquid nitrogen and crushed to fine powder.
Or for dessert, Charred Pineapple Core, with fermented pineapple skin granita, candied mango skin, and lime leaf ice cream.
A deceptively simple, insanely silky lemon and bay leaf ice cream makes for a fitting dessert.
The dessert menu at this highly original and daring little Japanese restaurant includes a brûlée of black mission figs with bay leaf ice cream.
Some, like "ice cream," "fig leaf," "hobby horse" and "water bed," have been fractured into two words, while many others, like " bumblebee," "crybaby" and "pigeonhole," have been squeezed into one.
It has some very appealing desserts, too, simple-seeming things with an unexpected spice here or there, like the cardamom in a pineapple upside-down cake or the bay leaf ice cream with plums cooked in port.
With main courses that good it would be easy for them to neglect the puddings, but they haven't and somehow I find room for "pain perdu, fig leaf ice cream and berries", a brioche-based dessert (literally with a brioche base) and caramelised top.
At this past weekend's Euphoria food and wine festival, I had what may be the most memorable dessert since my wife beguiled me with peach leaf ice cream.
