Last week’s recipe of Thai fish cakes – that included a signature ingredient in Thai cuisine, lemongrass – prompted questions from several readers about the use of the lemongrass stalk. While many of us in the Caribbean familiarly use the long green leaves for tea, it is the stalk of the lemongrass is used widely in South East Asian cuisine.
Lemongrass is a tropical variety of grass that can be used in its entirety for medicinal as well as culinary uses. The leaves form