And so I sat there through much of the book muttering 'you know, it would take you five damn minutes to chop some chives instead of using freeze-dried, and do you know how much better it would taste?'

. . . What is the point of freeze-dried chives?

(It doesn't even take five minutes to chop chives! They're the size of pipe cleaners! You can shred them with your fingernails if you have to!)