From The Herb Garden: Everything Is Better With Basil!
The pungent aroma of basil evokes thoughts of Italian cuisine , but this herb is grown and enjoy around the world for its flavourful and fragrant leaves . Basil ’s native range reaches from Central Africa to Southeast Asia . And this ancient herbaceous plant has been cultivated for culinary and medicinal purposes for intimately 5000 years . The most well - known miscellanea of Basil of Caesarea is Genovese , which is also sometimes come to to as sweet-scented basil ....