The Healing Kitchen: An Indoor Herb-Garden Pharmacy for Cooks [Hardcover]

Patricia Stapley (Author), Laurie Rubin (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1996

For any woman who is interested in the healing power of herbs or loves cooking and gardening with herbs, The Healing Kitchen is the perfect gift. This beautifully illustrated book includes delicious recipes for using herbs in salsas and sauces, pestos, marinades, fillings, dips and spreads, and luscious cream-free soups. Also included are natural remedies for stress, everyday aches and pains, congestion, PMS, fatigue, insomnia, colds, headaches, and much more. Full-color photographs of easy-to-find-and-grow herbs like basil, lemon balm, marjoram, and nasturtium are accompanied by basic gardening advice and a recipe and remedy that can be made from each.

As the popularity of herbs has reached the mainstream, there's never been a better time for The Healing Kitchen.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Macmillan General Reference (April 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 002860394X
• ISBN-13: 978-0028603940
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #252,301 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great herb/indoor gardening book!, November 30, 2006

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Her Majesty, Queen of Diet Sprites (Continents change at short notice) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healing Kitchen: An Indoor Herb-Garden Pharmacy for Cooks (Hardcover)

"The Healing Kitchen - An Indoor Herb-Garden Pharmacy for Cooks" is a small, excellent book for gardeners, particularly those of us who enjoy container &/or indoor gardening. After a brief introduction, the book is divided into chapters for each of the following herbs: Sweet Basil, Curly Chervil, Garlic Chives, Dill, French Lavender, Ginger, Italian Parsley, Lemon Balm, Lemon Verbena, Sweet Marjoram, Mizuna, Nasturtium, Peppermint, Rosemary, Sage & Thyme. Each chapter starts with a one-page line drawing, description of the herb & its uses in cooking & healing, an excellent photo, & a one-page how-to describing the (brief) Botany, the container to use, how to plant, Light, Temperature, Water & Food and When to Harvest. Each chapter ends with one page each of an "food" recipe and a "healing" recipe using the chapter's featured herb.
This book has everything anyone needs to successfully grow herbs in containers indoors. The writing is easy to understand & follow, the photos are excellent, the instructions for growing & the recipes are succint. It gets right down to it, without any superfluous or complicated nonsense. The book is only 80 pages long, and that's all it needs to be!
The only difficulty is that the book came out in 1996 & is out of print. I discovered it through the public library. To order it, you must use Amazon's used book merchants, which I'm doing now, because I liked the book so much. I consider the book a must-have, alongside my various Taylor's Gardening guides.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great herbal Book., September 5, 2000

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airzinnn "airzinnn" (NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healing Kitchen: An Indoor Herb-Garden Pharmacy for Cooks (Hardcover)

This book gives instructions on growing, gathering and using your herbs. Each herb is divided into it's own section for growing, and two recipes are included for each herb: one for cooking and one for pleasure or healing. This book was well organized.