{"id":1525,"date":"2013-08-28T21:23:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T21:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vip-restaurant.vamtam.com\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2013-08-28T21:23:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T21:23:54","slug":"summer-basil-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookacook.at\/index.php\/2013\/08\/28\/summer-basil-recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basil Recipes That Define Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"limit-wrapper\"><div class=\"row \"><div class=\"vamtam-grid grid-1-1  vamtam-first-level grid-1-1  first unextended no-extended-padding\" style=\"padding-top:0.05px;padding-bottom:0.05px;\" id=\"vamtam-column-40608112c8ba16f701bfafbef25e7ea4\" ><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vip-restaurant.vamtam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Salads-1.jpg?resize=1240%2C830&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Salads-1\" width=\"1240\" height=\"830\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nBasil is summer\u2019s defining herb. In many parts of the Western world, the blossoming of this herb coincides with many of the season\u2019s other darlings, like tomatoes and peaches. Naturally, the herb \u2015 which is a member of the mint family \u2015 is a perfect complement and can be found paired together in many dishes.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that basil first had its start in Asia and Africa \u2015 but it quickly took off all over the world. While basil is available in over 60 varieties, the most popular kind is sweet Italian basil, known as Sweet Genovese. With big, soft leaves, it just begs to be served on top of pasta. Thai basil (which has smaller, pointed leaves) and purple opal basil (which is &#8230; purple) are also common these days.<\/p>\n<p>Whichever kind you get your hands on, try them in a few of the recipes below.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adams also came to understand how important it was that his carefully crafted photos were reproduced to best effect. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,17,1],"tags":[18,31,37,41,43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bookacook.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/large.jpg?fit=1100%2C700&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pexS6b-oB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookacook.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookacook.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookacook.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookacook.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookacook.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookacook.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookacook.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookacook.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookacook.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookacook.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}