An encyclopedia, cookbook, and how-to gardening guide all in one. More than 80 recipes are included.
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Plenty of colorful photographs and illustrations enhance this hybrid mixture of identification guide, instructional gardening treatise, and cookbook. In the book's first half, the Hemphills, Australian authorities on growing and using herbs, survey over 60 herbs arranged alphabetically by scientific name. Each entry offers details on the herb's identification, history, cultivation, and harvesting, as well as uses (medicinal, cosmetic, and culinary). In the second half, the authors offer advice on using herbs as gifts and as medicine, herb gardening, and cooking with herbs. A general index and common name index provide good access to the text. This work compares favorably with other, similar titles, including Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz's excellent The Encyclopedia of Herbs, Spices, and Flavorings (LJ 11/15/92), and its old-fashioned, English flavor (the book was first published in Australia) is sure to be popular with public library patrons. [Garden Book Club selection.]?John Charles, Scottsdale P.L., Ariz.
-?John Charles, Scottsdale P.L., Ariz.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
-?John Charles, Scottsdale P.L., Ariz.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Great Reference Book on Herbs,
This review is from: What Herb Is That?: How to Grow and Use the Culinary Herbs (Hardcover)
This is a great knowledge (reference) book on herbs from identification, cultivation, harvesting, to uses. The book "Flavoring with Culinary Herbs" by Mary El-Baz would be a great companion book.
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HERBS HAVE ALWAYS played an important part in human history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
airy racks, chop the fresh leaves, crystallized mint, curry tree, herb sandwiches, aniseed tea, upright rosemary, coarse river sand, salad rocket, shallow drills, bush basil, orris powder, green dill, upland cress, curled parsley, facial steam, garden thyme, prostrate rosemary, cooled tea, root division, sunny position, sweet rocket, companion planting, vegetable margarine, salad burnet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Middle East, North Africa, Southeast Asia, Southern Europe, The Winter's Tale, Feast of the Passover, Midsummer Night's Dream, South America, Description There, John Gerard, Dwarf Dutch, John Evelyn New!
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HERBS HAVE ALWAYS played an important part in human history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
airy racks, chop the fresh leaves, crystallized mint, curry tree, herb sandwiches, aniseed tea, upright rosemary, coarse river sand, salad rocket, shallow drills, bush basil, orris powder, green dill, upland cress, curled parsley, facial steam, garden thyme, prostrate rosemary, cooled tea, root division, sunny position, sweet rocket, companion planting, vegetable margarine, salad burnet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Middle East, North Africa, Southeast Asia, Southern Europe, The Winter's Tale, Feast of the Passover, Midsummer Night's Dream, South America, Description There, John Gerard, Dwarf Dutch, John Evelyn New!
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- Culpeper's Complete Herbal (Wordsworth Reference) by Nicholas Culpeper on page 16, and page 36
- The Scented Garden by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde on page 204
- North Africa (Exploration of Africa) by John G. Hall in Back Matter
- Middle East Review: All the Central Asia States of the Former USSR, Plus Countries Such as Libya, Egypt and Algeria by Hunter Publishing in Back Matter
- South American by Arthur Stephen Morris in Back Matter
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