Waldmeister: Sweet Woodruff Tastes like Now

By Jude Stewart

WALDMEISTER, “MASTER OF THE woods” to Germans, is the plant known as sweet woodruff in English (Galium odoratum). Other English names wax literary: “wild baby’s breath” and “sweet-scented bedstraw.” I became intrigued with waldmeister during various stretches of living in Berlin. In spotlessly bright-white cases of ice cream around the city, you can alw…