Chervil

Nov. 4th, 2011 at 12:00 PM

There's been exciting news in the last day: Tricia Sullivan will be Guest of Honour at Eastercon 2012! The next Vector, in honor of Diana Wynne Jones, is out! And oddness: BBC News occasionally defaulting to July 23rd, causing me to briefly panic that Norway was being shot at *again*. (It wasn't just me. It happened to

sioneva too. And therefore, presumably lots of other people.)

But rather than discussing these at greater length, I was reading Restaurant magazine this morning and now feel compelled to give you a poll about chervil.

Poll #1792464

Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 50

Ben Mckellar, Founder, Gingerman Restaurant Group, "Chervil is another one - I don't think anyone puts chervil on a dish anymore."

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I put chervil on dishes.

2(3.7%)

I put chervil *in* dishes, not on them.

9(16.7%)

Chervil is so passé.

2(3.7%)

I have never used chervil.

25(46.3%)

Chervil?

16(29.6%)

Comments

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cartesiandaemon

Nov. 4th, 2011 12:13 pm (UTC)

I still think of Chervil as a rabbit from Watership Down... :)

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owlfish

Nov. 4th, 2011 12:16 pm (UTC)

I thought - for once, surely I have covered all the options in this poll. But no. I failed to provide you with a rabbit option.

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cartesiandaemon

Nov. 4th, 2011 04:49 pm (UTC)

It's mostly covered by the last option :) There's always something missing. ewx always includes a "That's not funny, that happened to me grandma :( option" anywhere it would be sufficiently ridiculous, although now I want to use "wasn't that a rabbit in WD" as the default "other" option :)

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owlfish

Nov. 4th, 2011 04:55 pm (UTC)

I considered posting a separate poll - Chervil: Herb or Rabbit?

But 1) it reminded me too much of "Cheese or Font?" and 2) I'm sure Chervil means something else yet again to someone else, and I would be excluding them.

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moon_custafer

Nov. 5th, 2011 12:02 pm (UTC)

I would've gone with the rabbit option.

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chickenfeet2003

Nov. 4th, 2011 12:27 pm (UTC)

I haven't actually used chervil since I last had a garden (more than ten years now). I don't think I've ever seen it for sale.

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owlfish

Nov. 4th, 2011 01:06 pm (UTC)

That was, in fact, part of the speaker's point. In the roundtable discussion, they were on the subject of garnishes. But it made me wonder more widely.

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tammabanana

Nov. 4th, 2011 12:54 pm (UTC)

I've never used it, but I've seen it in recipes and in my grocery store.

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lil_shepherd

Nov. 4th, 2011 01:10 pm (UTC)

It's one of those aniseedy herbs for which there are a lot of substitutes.

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nmg

Nov. 4th, 2011 03:45 pm (UTC)

Oddly enough, last week I cooked with chervil for the first time in years (a rather good spanakopita, if you want to know).

I can't see why you wouldn't use chervil; it doesn't taste like parsley, and it doesn't taste like fennel, but somewhere in between.

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