In article >,
"James Silverton" > wrote:

> Since the genetically deprived have been loudly proclaiming that
> cilantro tastes like soap or has no taste, I am probably genetically
> programmed to say that bay leaves have no taste to me whether they come
> from the Mediterranean, California, the West Indies, Indosesia or
> Uzbekhistan.

I'd enjoy a wad of grass or single maple leaf thrown in and fished out
as much as a bay leaf. But that's just me. I understand that I'm missing
something.

leo