Antidote for Disappointment: reflection on Mithridatum
Well, Wednesday night I took my collections of herbs and spices to discuss the history of Mithridatum as I discussed in my last post . Or, as my brother accused me, to have show-and-tell. … And there were only two attendees. … And one of them had to leave early. This is always a risk as the semester continues. Students have to prioritise assignments over extra-curricular activities. When I finished with Victoria, has been assisting in arranging these events for a few years now, we decided that we would try run this same discussion first up in the next semester. Despite this intention, I had kind of promised an additional blog addressing matters discussed, and so here it is. Fresh vs Dried Ingredients- what this might mean for volumes I had thought that the volume of dried herbs would make a larger volume than fresh. Quite often when looking at herbs, the volume of a dried weight As I mentioned in my previous post, I became curious as to how fresh parsley might compare to dri...
