What Herb Is That?: How to Grow and Use the Culinary HerbsGARDENING 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.- |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
Allium schoenoprasum | 16 |
Aloysia triphylla | 22 |
Chicory | 59 |
Allpurpose Herb | 65 |
Turmeric Leaves | 71 |
Laurus nobilis | 78 |
Lavandula | 85 |
Lotus | 116 |
Marjoram | 122 |
Petroselinum | 129 |
Polygonum | 135 |
Valerian | 170 |
Common terms and phrases
airtight containers aloe vera angelica aroma autumn fall balm basil bergamot blend bloom boiling borage bouquet garni butter chamomile chervil chicken chives cold comfrey Companion planting cooking cool coriander Cosmetic cream cress Cultivation delicious digestion dill dish feet 60 cm fennel finely chopped flavor flowers foliage fragrant fruit garlic garlic chives garnish German chamomile green grow Harvesting and processing herb garden herbal History and mythology inches 30 cm infusion ingredient lavender lemon verbena lemongrass lovage marjoram Medicinal mixed mixture moist Mugwort onion oregano oven parsley Perennial PROPAGATION root division rosemary sage salad salad burnet sauce saucepan savory scent seedlings seeds SERVES skin sliced soil sorrel soup southernwood spearmint sprays spring stalks stems stir sugar summer summer savory sunny sweet tablespoon tansy tarragon taste teaspoons thyme tonic tree VARIOUS USES Culinary vegetable vinegar winter savory wormwood