The Sage Cottage Cookbook, 2nd: Celebrations, Recipes, and Herb Gardening Tips for Every Month of the Year [Paperback]

Dorry Norris (Author)

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Discover more than 170 delicious reasons to celebrate the great littleoccasions of the year with this new compilation of Dorry Baird Norris creativerecipes. Now in its second edition, this charming cookbook keeps the flavorfulaccent on herbal cooking with added advice on herb gardening. Some of thetantalizing new dishes include cornmeal pumpkin seed cakes, blueberry basilmuffins, bittersweet blackbean soup and lemon sesame wafers. This delightfulculinary calendar also offers fully tested and healthful recipes for 51 different feasts and celebrations from Job's Birthday to Midsummers Eve, tips for growing and using herbs and edible flowers and a wealth of fascinating herbal lore and history.

Product Details

• Paperback: 348 pages
• Publisher: Globe Pequot; 2nd edition (August 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564407276
• ISBN-13: 978-1564407276
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #354,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars More than just a cookbook!, April 5, 2000

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This review is from: The Sage Cottage Cookbook, 2nd: Celebrations, Recipes, and Herb Gardening Tips for Every Month of the Year (Paperback)

Full of herbal lore and facinating info, the author describes a celebration each month and covers "thymely" seasonal recipes to help with the festivities. From January's "Twelfth Night" to "Leyden Day" in October, these wild and often forgotten celebrations are a wonderful framework for fun and frivolity through the seasons. Recipes range from out of the ordinary- Queen Anne's Lace Jelly II and Fennel Tuna with Lavender, to tried and true- Oven Omlete and Chili Con Carne. Tips and Hints abound as well. I really enjoyed the herbal lore woven throughout the monthly themes- (it is said that parsley goes seven times to the Devil because it germinates so slowly!) I will be turning to this book again and again as the year turns.