Although bay leaves have featured in dishes for millennia, cooks and chefs are increasingly questioning how much they really bring to the table. The small, green and normally dry leaves are often added to sauces, stews, soup and rice dishes during cooking and removed before eating. Which leads to the key question: What do they actually do?A famously impassioned broadside on called them 'bulls***', while celebrity chef Ina Garten, aka the Barefoot Contessa, recently admitted she doesn't 'know if they actually do anything'.
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