Lovage belongs to the parsley family, and its seeds, leaves, and roots are commonly used in Europe for flavoring foods and beverages and for their medicinal properties.
Lovage plant with flowers
Flowering lovage Etymology
Both English lovage and German Liebstöckel seem to contain an element meaning 'love', but this is just a product of folk etymology.
Lovage, Levisticum officinale, is a perennial herb that looks like parsley and is in the parsley, or Apiaceae, family, like anise, dill, caraway, cumin, and fennel. Lovage is native to mountainous areas of southern Europe and Asia Minor.
1 cup celery (packed freshlovage leaves, leaves)
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Lovage
A celery-like vegetable.
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Lovage
Also known as sea parsley, the leaves and stem of the lovage plant add an intense celery flavour to soups, stews and stocks or pork and poultry dishes, as well as enhancing any potato dishes.
Lychee ...
Lovage A green herb, used as flavoring.
Lychee A small fruit with a thin, hard shell, white, juicy flesh and aromatic flavor.
Lyonnaise Containing chopped and sautéed onions, cooked in butter until golden.
lovage = wild celery = smallage = smellage Pronunciation: LOVE-age Notes: Lovage tastes like celery, but it's even more pungent and flavorful. The only drawback but it can't withstand long cooking like celery can.
Lovage: Sea parsley, the leaves and stem of the lovage plant. These add an intense celery flavor to soups. Can also be used in stocks or even stews. Potato, pork and poultry dishes can also use this for good effect. ...
Lovage:
A large, celery-like herb with a thick stalk and a lemony, musky, celery-like flavor.
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Lovage - A herb with a mild celery-like flavour, and reputed digestive qualities
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lovage leaves
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This feature, text and photo are reprinted with permission from Food FAQs: Substitutions, Yields & Equivalents by Linda Resnik (2003, FAQs Press) ...
Lentils With Lovage
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Lettuce and lovage soup
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céleri: celery (also fougére musquèe); (also céleri bâtarde, lovage)
cerfeuil: chervil, Anthriscus cerefolium
cerise: cherry
champignon: mushroom (e.g., aux champignons, containing or garnished with mushrooms) ...
Celery seed is the tiny dried head of a wild celery called Lovage. Celery seed is used in pickling and to add celery flavor to soups, sauces, meat and vegetable dishes. It has a strong flavor and should be used sparingly.
Celery Seeds - the seeds of the herb lovage; they are small and brown and are used in pickling and as a flavoring.
Cèpe - a delicious mushroom.
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Lovage. Ajwain or Ajowain. M Macchi or macchli. Fish. Mace Javitri. The outer part of the nutmeg. Madras. You will not find a traditional recipe for Madras curry. It is another restaurateurs invention.
 See also: Cooking, Herb, Aroma, Parsley, Vegetable
  
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