An Ode to Rosemary and Thyme.

THYME flies when you're having FENNEL.

We've CINNAMON CUMIN and going.

We never got CARAWAY by our success.

No matter how CHILLI the North wind blew,

It was SAGE to CURRY on serving a good stew.

I sat making OREGANO planes with old menus,

And landed them in the waste PEPPER basket.

The mirror told me to turn a new BAY LEAF,

But, I CORIANDER piling on the beef.

To all our long SAFFRON staff,

Truly the SALT of the Earth,

Please kindly accept this BOUQUET GARNI

For GINGERLY putting up with me.

COS LETTUCE be honest, I think I have gone

PARSLEY NUTMEG, nearly as faulty as BASIL.

After eleven SEASONINGS in Sunny Seaton,

Could it be all the beef that I have eaten?

If this sounds all FENUGREEK to you,

It is MINT to be!

Says who?

SESAME, Cream!

I wrote this daft thing in 1996 for the restaurant's 11th birthday!