Handed the Makrud Lime Leaf essence, he said, "O.K., let's play".
Two icy sweets — including a granita ice pop infused with yeasty pandanus leaf essence, a flavor commonly found in Southeast Asian desserts — definitively quenched any lingering traces of the meal's initial fire.
Let this mixture sit for 10 minutes so that the basil leaf essence can meld into the yoghurt base before applying it to clean skin.
The Burt's Bees Baby Bee collection of bubble bath, oils and lotions made with ingredients like apricot oil, rosemary leaf, pistachio and orange essence has become a surprise hit with the adult crowd ($5 to $16 at Burtsbees.com).
"Jean-Claude's specialty is atypical things," she explained to Dubrule, recalling that Ellena had once put essence of tomato leaf in a perfume.
Dishes from the final week of menus included poached white asparagus with charred broccolini, manchego cheese and red pepper essence and root beer leaf ice cream with vanilla cremeaux and birch syrup-infused meringue.
And then you found a way to inject that essence into a frail little leaf, no longer than a blade of grass.
So he gives us the colour of a leaf, the shape of a leaf: and most importantly, the essence of a leaf, which comes of its slightness, its vulnerability to gusts.
The characteristic fruit of most legumes is a pod (legume) consisting, in essence, of an ovary that is a tightly folded leaf, as in a pea pod.
You must extract the bay leaf before eating, but the herb has left behind its savory essence, adding complexity to the subtly smoky, chewy squid.
Although Emerson described "essences unchanged by man; space, the air, the river, the leaf", he also wrote of the "perfect exhilaration" of "crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky".
