On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:41:15 -0500, The Cook >
wrote:

>On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:16:47 -0800, sf > wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:30:12 -0800, Mark Thorson >
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Steve B wrote:
>>>>
>>>> sold only in little pine needle shaped leaves? Can you buy it powdered or
>>>> mashed? I looked, but didn't see it. I have an ulu with a cutting board
>>>> made for it that has a depression in it matching the ulu. It works, but a
>>>> lot goes flying.
>>>
>>>If you know what the plant looks like, you can probably
>>>find some for free at a local park, library, school,
>>>or supermarket parking lot. It's commonly used as a
>>>hedge.
>>
>>Around here, Mark. Steve B may live where cold and snow kills
>>rosemary in the winter.
>
>Mine is looking just fine after 8" of snow last week,

That snow means nothing to rosemary plants depending where you live
and what temperature are you talking... there was lots of snow in the
Caroliners last week. Rosemary will survive an occasional cold snap
but not a prolonged hard freeze. I've tried planting rosemary as an
ornamental shrub, but even on Lung Guyland it won't survive the
relatively mild winters. Here in the Catskills there are long spells
of temperatures below zero, almost always a few weeks of a steady
-20ºF. Anyway, if I wanted my food to taste like Pinesol I have
thousands of Norway spruce... one of the few plants deer won't eat and
they devour most any greenery. And I'll drink any rot gut booze but
not retsina, that's no different from rosemary. I don't cook with
mint either, when I want mint I brush my teeth... I don't like creme
de menthe either. Actually for the past few years I've been using
Tom's of Maine toothpaste, fennel flavor is excellent.