Peppery in flavour, it was known to the Romans before true pepper arrived from India and to this day it may be known as Pfefferkraut (‘pepper herb’) in German
If that old herbalist Coles was right when claiming the Latin saturiea came from satyrus, a satyr, ‘because they used it to provoke Venery,’ then possibly savory deserves attention for this alleged aphrodisiac as well as culinary attributes.
