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Herb & Spice Companion: The Complete Guide to Over 100 Herbs & Spices
You can spice up your cooking when you learn how to grow, dry, store and use over 100 herbs and spices! Herb and Spice Companion is your ultimate guide for using fresh and dried herbs and spices in the kitchen. Inside this handy book, get descriptions of more than 100 herbs and spices from around the world. Discover useful tips on storing and using spices to create innovative combinations of flavors. This is the essential guidebook to using herbs and spices to add flavor and depth in your cooking. From basil to beebalm, from lavender to lemon verbena, learn all of the interesting aspects of your herbs, including their rich history, how to grow, harvest, and dry them, and even their unique medicinal uses. This is a must-have for anyone's cookbook library.
224 pages, Paperback
First published September 30, 2015
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April 17, 2023
-2 stars
it's classified as a cookbook but it doesn't contain one single recipe!
this book is not at all what i was looking for. i wanted recipes on how to use and try out herbs i'm unfamiliar with.
-each herb has a very brief section called 'in the garden' with size, container, light, soil, plant, water, harvest, and care. as a gardener, i appreciated the harvest part.
a tiny section called 'keep it fresh' advising how long to store it, how to or how not store it (like if the herb should only be used fresh and never dried).
a brief section called 'in the kitchen' with dishes, prep, and serve. for dishes, it just uses the broadest strokes like salads, soups, sauces. for prep it says use whole fresh leaves or chop. its too broad and not very helpful.
and a section called 'pairings' with vegetables, proteins, and seasonings where it just lists foods. carrots, celery, beans, beef, chicken, thyme, parsley. again, not at all helpful in my opinion since it's such a large list for each one.
-p. 20 - instructions for different ways of drying herbs (air dry, oven, microwave)
-herbs and spices i'd like to learn more about and try out: chervil, fennel, marjoram, tarragon, bergamot (bee balm), borage, fenugreek, lovage, sassafras, savory, sorrel, sweed cicely, scented geranium, sweet woodruff, allspice, caraway, celery seeds, cassia vs cinnamon, corriander, star anise, sumac.
it's classified as a cookbook but it doesn't contain one single recipe!
this book is not at all what i was looking for. i wanted recipes on how to use and try out herbs i'm unfamiliar with.
-each herb has a very brief section called 'in the garden' with size, container, light, soil, plant, water, harvest, and care. as a gardener, i appreciated the harvest part.
a tiny section called 'keep it fresh' advising how long to store it, how to or how not store it (like if the herb should only be used fresh and never dried).
a brief section called 'in the kitchen' with dishes, prep, and serve. for dishes, it just uses the broadest strokes like salads, soups, sauces. for prep it says use whole fresh leaves or chop. its too broad and not very helpful.
and a section called 'pairings' with vegetables, proteins, and seasonings where it just lists foods. carrots, celery, beans, beef, chicken, thyme, parsley. again, not at all helpful in my opinion since it's such a large list for each one.
-p. 20 - instructions for different ways of drying herbs (air dry, oven, microwave)
-herbs and spices i'd like to learn more about and try out: chervil, fennel, marjoram, tarragon, bergamot (bee balm), borage, fenugreek, lovage, sassafras, savory, sorrel, sweed cicely, scented geranium, sweet woodruff, allspice, caraway, celery seeds, cassia vs cinnamon, corriander, star anise, sumac.
September 11, 2025
this is a great reference on herbs and spices
if you are looking to expand your use of spices and herbs this is a great book to have on hand
if you are looking to expand your use of spices and herbs this is a great book to have on hand
December 13, 2016
handy reference book- nicely photographed with good explanations.
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