GORDON RAMSAY: Alright, mate. I’ll forgive the cockup with the soup course, but I want that caprese salad, and if there’s any more forbidden knowledge of the future in it I’m going to need words with the chef de cuisine ME: Absolutely, chef. We have your caprese salad coming out now *additional member of waitstaff brings out a dish on one hand, and lifts the cloche to reveal basil leaves, fresh mozzarella, and slices of San Marzano tomato artfully arranged to spell out “MARCH 15, 2048 - AUTO ACCIDENT”* GORDON RAMSAY: Hold on a moment. Is that when and how I die? ME: I don’t know, chef. It seems at odds with the concept of free will that knowing such a thing would even be possible GORDON RAMSAY: Not even through the antipasti and I’m already being asked to subscribe to a non-deterministic universe. Fuck me
SEASONINGS include herbs and spices, along with minerals and chemicals used to season food!!!! Salt, citric acid, and MSG, are all examples of seasonings that are NOT herbs or spices!
HERBS are flavorful leaves. Only. Leaves. Doesn’t matter if its dried, fresh, whole, or ground, if it is a leaf, it is an herb
SPICES are flavorful parts of plants that are NOT LEAVES. These include seeds, berries, stems, bark, roots, flowers, buds… NOT LEAVES