What’s the Difference Between Spearmint and Peppermint?
What’s the Difference Between Spearmint and Peppermint? “A mint is a mint is mint” is something Gertrude Stein absolutely never wrote and glad are we, because it would have been abundantly false. Mint or “Mentha” is, in fact, a genus of herbal plants of which there are thought to be roughly 15 different species. Of those 15, two emerged dominant over time in culinary uses; spearmint and peppermint. Most are vaguely familiar with, or at least recognize the name of those two variations of the fragrant green stuff from your…
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