I guess it's Wacky Tuesday, at least according to the New York Post. As reported in this article, "Tv chef  Rachael Ray has asked staffers to perform a wacky exorcism ritual while planning her move into arch rival Martha Stewart's Chelsea studio, ordering them to burn bundles of sage to chase away negative 'spirits'." The Post goes on to quote an expert from the Sage Institute that, "Sage has a property that gives a certain kind of cleansing. The smoke goes up and enters into the spirit world as an offering." We should note that Ray's publicity people deny the story.

Should you choose to follow Rachael's practice (fictional or not), we'd like to add that at EYB there are ways to find some great recipes that use sage. In the library section, you can search for sage recipes in all our indexed books, or just yours. But what many users may not realize, you can also filter for magazine and online indexed recipes just using the filter tool in the right-hand column. For example, here are the 921 results of an online search for sage recipes. Enjoy!