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Thank you. Hello and welcome to Savor, production of IHeart Radio. I'm Annie Reese.

And I'm Lauren Vogelbaum. And today we have an episode for you about parsley.

Yes. Was there any particular reason this was on your mind, Lauren?

Well, it's been on the list for a really long time, but bears enough similarity to a bunch of other stuff that I was trying to kind of space it out from those.

But it's been a minute since we've talked about a carrot family herb. And also, I guess it was kind of, it kind of caught my attention as opposed to other herbs and spices that are still on the list because Passover

is coming up. And Passover being a Jewish holiday that involves, among other things, a sateder or like a ritual feast night with a lot of historical storytelling and symbolism through food and drink.

And in some Jewish traditions, parsley shows up on the Passover Seder plate as a vegetable meant to be dipped in salt water or sometimes vinegar

to remind us of the sorrow of the tears that got us all here.

There are other interpretations and traditions, but that's one that I grew up with.

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