When you think of "old-school" candy, root beer barrels, circus peanuts, lemon drops, or those wrapped strawberry candies you don't know the name of might quickly come to mind. But if you're really ...

Horehound (Marrubium Vulgare) has a long history of culinary, medicinal and liturgical uses. Tradition tells us that bitter herbs were served during the Seder feast of the Jewish Passover to remind ...

It wasn’t a trip to your grandmother’s house without trying to sneak from her trove of treats, especially whatever could be found inside her milk glass (or crystal) candy dish. Grandma candy, which is ...

“The Jewish Herbal: Mystical Reflections on Food, Nature and Urban Farming” is a regular column by Devorah Brous charting the ways we can use Jewish wisdom, tradition and practice to reconnect with ...

The candy has a rather dusty appearance. That’s “horehound,” not “whore hound” — though the joke works if you say it out loud, rather than see the word written. While the former might suggest an ...

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We here at Eating Our Words take serious food journalism, well, seriously. That's why, when I found a bag of Claeys Natural Herbal Candies: Horehound Old Fashioned Hard Candies, I felt it my ...

Horehound is an herb that is native to Europe. It was brought to the Americas and has been naturalized. It is a member of the mint family and is a hardy perennial. It has a square stem with woolly ...