Thread 211812898

>an italian tourist got completely flabbergasted when she saw purple basil in her salad
does this happen in your country ?

>>211812898 (OP)
why? they dont use it?

>>211812921
apparently it HAS to be green

>>211812898 (OP)
To be fair, red basil, including the varieties popular in Georgia and other Caucasian cuisines, tastes noticeably different from green basil. It's less sweet and less mild.

But don't exaggerate, Italians do know about and use red basil, you can find Italian pesto with red basil, for example.

There are Italian tourists?

>>211813661
well, she came to my family’s winery for some qvevri wine degustation
technically it was a business trip

>>211813050
I’ve been looking for the red basil pesto recipes and kept bumping into the red cabbage pestos.