Sage

Sauge

What it is

Salvia comes from salvare, “to save” — the medieval school of Salerno asked: “Why should a man die who has sage in his garden?” In the kitchen it saved something humbler: pork, butter and beans from blandness.

In the kitchen

Fry whole leaves in butter until crisp: the butter turns nutty and the leaves become savoury chips.

Goes with

Pork Butter Onion Apple White beans Chestnut

Same species

Chia seed Clary sage Rosemary

Also used with

Bison Butternut squash Caul fat Cicerchia Suckling pig Pork collar

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