Why You Should Always Treat Your Herbs Like Flowers — Tips from The Kitchn

The refrigerator crisper drawer was undoubtedly invented with good intentions, but we all know what happens: You buy a few herbs for one recipe on Saturday, shove them back into the drawer, forget to use the rest of them Sunday, and remember them on Wednesday, only to discover a matted mass of dead herbs underneath a two-pound bag of carrots. You magically extract a tablespoon out of what's left, and the rest of the herb bunch goes to waste. But what if there was a way to keep soft herbs fresh long enough that you could always have time to use the whole bunch?

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