Rick Bayless Hoja Santa in My Backyard! 

About 20 years ago I ate at Topolobampo. I asked the server about hoja santa. He knew nothing about it. But YOU came to our table and talked about hoja santa. And talked to my mom about Juchitán where my grandfather is from. You talked to us for like 15 minutes!! I will never forget that!! Thank you!You are such are great Chef and Person. Cheers!! Salúd!!

Hoja santa, is also use as a remedy for achy joints, put a bunch in rubbing alcohol let sit for a week l, when the alchohol turns dark green, rub it on achy joints. It's awesome!

Thank you for not changing the names of our culture. ❤️

I’m growing a bunch of these in South Florida. Most of them grew from under the original pots. They spread very easil here and some consider them invasive because of how easily they spread. We use it to help ease respiratory infections as a tea and to help increase milk production while breastfeeding 💚👩‍🌾

I'll try to keep this as short as possible.. Many years ago I used to bike what was to become the famous Chicago 606 trail, at that time it was a run down abandoned train trail. One of the rare highlights, if any, was this person's incredible gardens down below which I was looked upon in awe given my attempts at gardening in Chicago. My girlfriend at the time, and my wife now, would tell me that she believed that was Rick Bayless's home which I knew very little about, both who he was and what he meant to Chicago. Fast forward a few years, many videos, many visits Rick's restaurants, and a ton of cooking, the 606 being built, and finally on my 50th birthday I was fortunate enough to attend Rick's home for a benefit dinner and got to see these beautiful gardens up close... I fully agree with everyone here that you really are a treasure !!

You are an absolute treasure Rick! Thanks for taking us beyond the kitchen to continue to refine our efforts and techniques

Soy de Misantla Veracruz, en esa área no cocinan con esa hoja, no la conozco, creo la usan en Oaxaca, en Misantla usamos mucho el epazote y hojas de aguacate. Gracias por apreciar la gastronomía Mexicana. Vivo en Mchenry IL.

Learning from every video! it would be great to see you cook with this stunning plant/herb, Rick!

The San Antonio Botanical Gardens has a gorgeous patch of this beauty! I've never tried growing or tasting it myself but I love sasparilla soda so now I must give it a try in my garden. Thank you for the tips! I'd love some recipe and use suggestions. The first time I tried epazote was in your tortilla soup recipe and now I'm hooked on it 😁

Beautiful plant. In some parts of Mexico is known as acuyo, in others hoja santa or hierba santa.

Thank you Rick. Very interesting. I also live in Chicago and have always wanted to start a herb garden of my own. Always worried about the climate here. This video motivates me to get one started!

Love hoja Santa!

I took your advice and tried hoja santa in my yard (just north of Atlanta); they come back in profusion every year! (first year I potted them and brought them in, but they do very well here just leaving them alone).

I live the smell and taste of this leave. My mom uses it on tamales de ceniza to pair with pipian.

Thank you! I will get some to grow and make some beans tamales with hoja Santa!

Nona Santa is invasive in Oakland. I have spent years digging it out of places where I don’t want to grow. It is delicious. There is a wonderful sauce that mixes the herb with tomatillo which is used on fish in Veracruz. It is interesting that episode he, which one would think would do well anywhere, does not do well in Northern California. Lippia graveolens, one of the plants often called “ Mexican oregano“ is a perennial here.

Rick, you have such a green thumb! It is a talent. I understand growing what you love to eat but you are more successful at it than most. Where there’s a will there’s a way! I grow chayote, Mexican oregano and various sources of flor de calabaza. I also grow quelites and walking green onions as well as Chile Serrano and poblano.

This is one of the plants I'm looking to add. I live in AZ and will probably keep them in a container just to see how they do in our summer - last year we had 57 straight days of 110 degrees+ . I was born in Chicago, lived in the suburbs and worked in the loop - those winters are brutal. From one extreme to the other. It's a gardening challenge, to be sure. Thanks for the video.

There is a not very known recipe for cold pasta salad/elbow pasta With green chilis ,lime juice, hoja. Santa y Aguacate in the blender make a quick mayonnaise mix with pasta. Chill yummy

Nice! I was wondering about this after I got a Oaxaca cookbook and soon realized that most recipes call for a hoja santa leaf

Can I visit your garden? Im in Chicago😊 I’m new to growing food and I started growing hoja Santa this year and it’s growing beautifully had no idea I can eat it! Thank you for this info!

Thanks for the purchase ref, Chef. I talked with John at Almost Eden, and bought a couple of plants. He told me about shipping 300 leaves some years ago to a Chicago chef, whom I suppose to be you. Hopefully, I’ll be able to keep the plants alive in continers over upstate New York winters. It’s easy enough to find the dried leaf at a decent tienda de abarrotes, but they’re too fragile to work well for wrapping things.

beautiful plants

Oh wow😍😍🖤🖤👏👏that is so great to have it on hand.Good for you guy in the Chicago area😎😎😎🇲🇽😏🇺🇸

Very informative and straight to the point. LOVED this video. Thank you

Can you please make a video showing how you cook it or prepare meals with it. Thank you.

Hey very informative!

Ill say it again You rock You lead You are the genuine article

So interesting 🪴never heard about this plant in England here 😅

Garden tour please ❤️😍🌿

Thanks for this. I loved the mole amarillo in Oaxaca & I've often wondered if this plant can be grown in the north. It tastes like sassafras, a native tree here in the northeast. I've thought of experimenting with flavoring mole Amarillo using sassafras leaves. Haven't tried it yet

Thank you!

My mom uses it in “chancletas”, a tamale made in La Cuenca del Papaloapan

Hmmmm…….going to give them a try here in NE Florida. So beautiful, sounds yummy.

We grow them here in Tampa.

Be careful in warmer climates, it can be very invasive. Once established, very hard to get rid of.

I like it in scruble eggs...

FYI - It's listed under 'R' for the rootbeer plant - www.almostedenplants.com/shopping/products/789-rootbeer-tree-hoja-santa-mexican-pepperleaf-yerba-santa-sacred-pepper/?bc=no.

Omg 😯 👏🏻👏🏻

Saintly leaf

I saw them alot in texas but have never tasted it

Used in yellow mole right!?

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Anise as a flavor doesn't need to exist. 🤢