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Complete Book Of Herbs & Spices
A collection of applications, definitions, and options for using herbs and spices. This practical guide gives instructions on all things herbs-and-spices—from cultivating and drying to proper storage—and additionally provides a dictionary with descriptions, illustrations, and uses for more than 130 herbs and spices. Recipes and cooking advice are complemented by tips for using herbs and spices medicinally and cosmetically. Sized for maximum ease of use, this sourcebook is a necessity for anyone wanting to add zest and seasoning to both their meals and lives..-.
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The Illustrated Guide to Herbal Home Remedies
This is a practical, authoritative and safe guide to using herbs to help maintain general health and wellbeing. The appeal of using herbal remedies has been known for centuries and is growing in popularity. Herbs contain powerful properties that when used in the correct way can offer a more gentle therapeutic action without the side effects of many modern drugs.Herbs once offered the only source of medicine available to many people. The book opens with a discussion of the history of herbs and their use in treating everyday ailments. It shows how to design and plant a herb garden and choose plants to grow that are suitable for easing the symptoms of specific health complaints. For those with little garden space there is advice on planting herbs in containers.With the herbs to hand, there are step-by step photographic sequences and easy-to-follow instructions that show the different ways in which herbs can safely be used at home. There is advice on how to make a herbal tea, an infusion, a sleep pillow, a bath bag, a tincture, a decoction, a compress, a range of lotions and skin salves, as well as how to make best use of essential oils.The second section of the book is arranged according to ailment such as sore throats, insomnia, and sunburn. The symptoms of each complaint are described, together with different methods of safe herbal treatment to help alleviate the problem. Each is illustrated with photographs where appropriate. Finally, an authoritative A-Z visual directory of herbs catalogues the herbs, their active properties and uses. Each is illustrated photographically for ease of identification, and the medicinal value of each is described..-.
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Lavender:
For many centuries the medicinal, aromatic and beauty-enhancing properties of lavender have been known and harnessed, and today this stunning herb remains one of the most prized plants in gardens all over the world.Opening with an insightful overview of the rich and ancient history and folklore surrounding the plant, Tessa Evelegh goes on to explore every aspect of lavender ? from how to grow, cultivate and harvest it, to its many uses around the house, including the kitchen, where its aroma and flavour are used to enhance a range of delicious recipes.More than 15 step-by-step craft projects are included, with delightful ideas for the table, such as scented napkin rings; aromatic treats for the bedroom, such as a little lavender clothes heart; and cleansing and beauty products, such as lavender soap, for the bathroom. There are delightful ways of decorating with lavender, such as fresh tussie mussie, dried lavender wreaths, and a beautiful organza cushion.A selection of recipes reveals how this often overlooked herb can be used to great effect in cooking, with deliciously fragrant dishes ranging from Leafy Lavender Salad and Red Mullet with Lavender to Lavender Scones and Lavender Sugar.Beautifully illustrated with more than 130 specially commissioned photographs, this exquisite volume captures the very best of this much-loved flowering herb..-.
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The Spice Bible
The only book on spices that any chef or aspiring cook will ever need, The Spice Bible is a fully comprehensive guide to the fascinating history and enticing culinary uses of 45 fiery foods from around the world. Each entry—from ajowan through wolfberry—includes a description of the spice’s origin and uses, guidelines on how to integrate it into your own cooking, and a trove of other helpful information. (Which are the best spices to pair with saffron? When is the right time to throw away that leftover ginger?) Like its companion volume, The Produce Bible, this must-have book also features more than 250 recipes—for appetizers, soups, entrees, side dishes, breads, desserts, and more—that highlight each ingredient’s distinctive taste and character. Carrot soup with caraway butter, seared salmon with sesame and cucumber, and beef filet poached in Asian-spiced broth are among the delectable dishes presented here, all created with flavorful spices and easily mastered by any cook. The book also includes tips on purchasing and storing spices, along with sections on spice mixes and pastes such as curry, zaatar, and chermoula. Filled with evocative photographs throughout, The Spice Bible is an invaluable resource for anyone looking for a pinch of personality in their cooking—or a dash of inspiration..-.
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Mar 282011
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The Complete Herb Book: Revised & Updated
“This is a must-have book for everyone who loves gardening and cooking. I’m Jekka’s biggest fan.” -Jamie Oliver (on the previous edition) The Complete Herb Book is a comprehensive A-Z guide to the fascinating world of herbs, providing practical information on each herb’s organic growing requirements, use, mythical properties and historical background. This new edition is updated and revised to include complete entries for 40 additional herbs. The A-Z directory features a full double-page spread for each herb, with details that include:Natural habitatSpecies and related plantsSoil propertiesWatering requirementsWeather protectionContainer growingStrategies to eliminate pestsBest harvesting timesCulinary, medicinal, cosmetic and other usesRecipes
The how-to section features step-by-step instructions and best practices for herb gardening. Included are sample plans; month-by-month checklists; drying, freezing and storing guides; tips for making oils, vinegars and preserves; and information on propagation.The Complete Herb Book is the ideal handbook for growing herbs and provides hours of browsing pleasure for gardeners, cooks and natural-healing practitioners..-.
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Mar 242011
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75 Exceptional Herbs For Your Garden
Gardening expert Jack Staub continues his stimulating series on unique additions to your garden with 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden..-.
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Salt And Pepper
Common seasonings as they’ve never been seen before. Found on nearly every dining table, salt and pepper are usually used without much thought-just sprinkled on dishes as a matter of routine. In Salt and Pepper, acclaimed chef Jody Vassallo reveals a new potential for these common seasonings. This book features recipes from around the world that use salt and pepper — or both — as the theme ingredient, blowing the dust off these condiments so taken for granted. In addition to recipes for main dishes, there are those for rubs, marinades and preserves. Each dish features a dazzling full-color photograph. A special section details the amazing range and variety of salts and peppers that are now commonly available. The recipes, which offer a feast for any table, include: Salt-crust fish with caper sauce Lobster with green pepper Mornay sauce Steamed asparagus with pepper-basil mayonnaise Crème brûlée with lemon and passion fruit confit. From appetizers to desserts, this cookbook is seasoned with special recipes to delight any home cook. Salt and pepper will never be taken for granted again..-.
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Mar 112011
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The Spice And Herb Bible, Second Edition
2007 IACP Award Winner! The classic reference – expanded and in full color. Professional chefs and home cooks use spices and herbs to enhance food flavors and to create new taste combinations and sensations. From vanilla beans to cinnamon, from cumin to tarragon, no kitchen is complete without spices and herbs. The second edition of this classic reference is significantly expanded, with four new spices and herbs as well as 25 additional blends. The book is now printed in full color and features color photography throughout. Every herb and spice has a handsome and detailed color photograph to make identification and purchasing a breeze. The book includes fascinating and authoritative histories of a wide range of global herbs and spices such as angelica, basil, candle nut, chervil, elder, fennel, grains of paradise, licorice root, saffron, tamarind, Vietnamese mint and zedoary..-.
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Cooking with Spices
This collection of 93 mouthwatering and easy-to-follow recipes uses spicy seasoning from around the world to produce an exciting range of dishes, from the sweetly aromatic to the rich and pungent, and from the delicately flavored to the fiery hot. Whether you wish to impress your guests with enticing soups and main courses, such as Hot and Sour Prawn Soup and Mediterranean Duck with Harissa and Saffron, or want to introduce some different meals for the family, such as Black Bean Chilli con Carne and Hot Pepperoni Pizza, and more unusual ingredient combinations, such as Paprika Pork with Fennel and Caraway, Roast Lamb and Apricot, Cinnamon and Cumin Stuffing and Salmon marinated with Thai Spices. Spices combine naturally with both sweet and savory dishes. Here you will find an excellent range of vegetable dishes and salads, and a spiced selection of pizza, pasta and grain recipes. In addition, try the tasty preserves and chutneys and enjoy a variety of subtly spiced breads, buns, cakes and biscuits, including Chilli Cheese Muffins, and Lemon Poppy Seed Cake. Finally, round off a feast with a choice of delectable spicy desserts, including Churros with Cinnamon, Ginger and Lemon Puddings with Vanilla Custard, and Pistachio Halva Ice Cream. With over 90 recipes to choose from, shown in over 300 stunning specially-commissioned photographs, Spicy will bring color, fragrance and flavor to every meal..-.
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Mar 062011
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The Best-Ever Easy-to-Use Herb Cookbook
Fresh herbs add delicious and unmistakable fragrance to home cooking, tempting the taste buds, and adding colour to the finished dish. Scientific research has proved that herbs are good for us. They are healthy and add nutritional value to food. Added to this, fresh herbs are now available for us to benefit from them all year round. Herbs make an everyday meal more interesting, adding refreshing hints of a single flavour, and aromatic and subtle depth when added in combinations in generous handfuls. This volume shows you how to make the most of these versatile plants, with 85 delicious and enticing recipes to try. There are new ways with old classics, such as mint with lamb, as well as unusual combinations that add a contemporary twist, such as melon and basil soup, or roast garlic with goat’s cheese, walnut and herb pate. Herbs need not be confined to the savoury course. Here are delicious ideas for incorporating herbs into flavourful breads, bakes, desserts and even ice creams, as well as the more usual soups, salads, fish, meat and vegetable dishes. Try sweetly scented lavender scones, or home-made rosemary ice cream for a refreshing summer menu choice. Whatever your choice, here are recipes guaranteed to pep up an everyday meal, and add interest to your cooking – all inspired by the abundance of fresh flavours in the herb garden..-.
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Mar 052011
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175 Hot & Spicy Vegetarian Recipes
Spices have been prized for centuries – in fact, they were once valued as highly as gold. Today they remain an essential ingredient in culinary traditions around the world and deserve pride of place in every cook’s repertoire for their ability to add heat and flavour to all kinds of foods, whether sweet or savoury. This book offers a simple introduction to the fabulous possibilities of hot and spicy vegetarian food. This superb collection of recipes includes a selection of fiery traditional vegetarian favourites from India, Vietnam, and Mexico alongside milder, more subtly spiced dishes. Moving beyond the popular varieties of chilli, explore the aromatic delights of an exotic wealth of spices, including cardamom, turmeric, lemon grass, wasabi, coriander, saffron and zereshk, galangal and cayenne. Every aspect of cooking is covered, from warming soups and piquant appetizers and light meals to sizzling vegetarian main courses, and a range of tantalising side dishes and spicy desserts and bakes. Dishes include Casablancan Couscous with Harissa, Spiced Pumpkin Gnocchi, Grilled Polenta with Chilli Salsa, Cardamom-spiced Pear Tarte Tatin and Swedish Spice Bread. Recipes are described in clear, step-by-step sequences and accompanied by photographs of the finished dishes, so you can easily achieve perfect results. Detailed nutritional information makes it easy to eat healthily or plan for special diets while still enjoying the spicy delights. Whether you aspire to impress your friends with a spectacular flavourful feast or liven up midweek meals, these recipes are sure to fire you up and satisfy and excite your family and friends..-.
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Cooking With Herbs & Spices
With so many exciting varieties of herbs and spices now available, cooking with them has never been so inspiring. There are enticing recipes for Soups and Salads, such as Mint and Parsley Salad, and original Starters and Light Meals like Baked Ricotta and Herb Terrine. Main Courses include Fried Bream Thai-Style and Coriander Chicken with Fenugreek, while Vegetables includes Sage Buttered Baby Leeks and aubergine Imam Bayildi, Pasta, Rice and Bread are given wonderfully intense flavours in dishes such as Purple Basil Ravioli with Truffle Butter and Perfumed Persian Pulow. Finally, Sweet Things features the indulgent Fig on a Cushion with Thyme-scented Syrup and the delicious Mexican Chocolate with Vanilla Cream..-.
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500 Curries
The huge number of bustling India and Thai restaurants testifies to the popularity of curry in Europe and America, but highly-spiced dishes have long been favorites all over the world. From the Middle East to the Caribbean, Morocco to Ethiopia and all across India and South-East Asia, people cherish foods that leave a tingle on your tongue. Make the most of the international curry culture and expand your culinary horizons with this sizzling collection of 500 of the world’s best curry dishes. With such a wide range of delicious, spicy recipes, there’s enough variety here to keep even the most ardent curry fan happy. Perfect the classics with recipes for Beef Vindaloo, Chicken Satay and Coronation potatoes, and then try something a little unusual, like Mussels Stuffed with Cinnamon-Spiced Pilaff, Spicy Aubergine Soup with Beef and Lime, or Malay Clay-pot Chicken. If you fancy something to compliment your main course, you’ll enjoy the wonderful selection of spicy appetizers, scorching side dishes, fiery salads, red-hot relishes, favorite rice dishes and traditional breads. Whether you like your curries red hot or prefer a milder, more complex flavor, there are recipes to suit your taste. A plentiful range of vegetarian options is also included so everyone can get their fill of spicy flavors. Nutritional information for every recipe makes it easy to plan balanced meals and cater for special diets, while over mouth-watering photographs of every finished dish make perfect results easy every time. Clear and easy-to-follow recipes mean this book is perfect for kitchen novices as well as more advanced curry aficionados..-.
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Curry:
Groundbreaking and accessible contemporary curries, marrying eastern and western techniques and ingredients, sit side-by-side with an awe-inspiring collection of classic regional curries, many never previously published. Classic recipes include Bengali-Style Fish Curry with Mustard Paste, Fiery Rajasthani Lamb Curry, Mutton Kohlapuri, and Butter Chicken; and contemporary curries include Lamb Shanks with Saffron and Rosewater, Seared Scallops with Coconut and Ginger Sauce, and Roast Grouse with Black Lentils. The wonderful combination of old and new make this a curry book like no other. Exquisitely designed, this celebration of the timeless nature of curry collects some of the greatest recipes from all over the subcontinent..-.
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Vanilla
The fascinating, kaleidoscopic story of one of the world’s most exotic and sensual plants and how it transformed historyFrom the Aztec Indians to Martha Stewart, vanilla has been synonymous with sweetening foods. Yet it’s also in chili, perfume, paint, desserts, car tires, and soda. In Tim Ecott¹s Vanilla, learn the fascinating history of the world’s most sought-after flavoring.The story of vanilla is a botanical mystery, a plant that traveled the world but would not bear fruit outside Mexico until a twelve-year-old African slave on an island figured out how to cultivate it. Now endangered in the wild and the world¹s most labor-intensive agricultural crop, vanilla is more expensive to procure today than at any time in its history. Tim Ecott follows its journey from Mexico to Madagascar and back to America, meeting the farmers, the brokers, and the ice-cream makers who make vanilla a multimillion-dollar business.In the tradition of books like Tobacco, Tim Ecott’s Vanilla is a whimsical journey that chronicles the incredible power of one velvety brown, long, and slender bean..-.
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Spice
An explosion of flavor in ingenious Arabic-Mediterranean recipes from the James Beard Award-winning chef of Oleana in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On a trip to Turkey as a young woman, chef Ana Sortun fell in love with the food and spent months learning the traditions of Turkish cooking from local women. Inspired beyond measure, Sortun opened her own restaurant in Cambridge, the award-winning Oleana, where she creates her own interpretations of dishes using the incredible array of delicious spices and herbs by Arab-Mediterranean chefs. In this gorgeously photographed book, Sortun shows readers how to use this philosophy of spice to create wonderful dishes in their own home. She reveals how the artful use of spice sand herbs rather than fat and cream is the key to the full, rich flavors of Mediterranean cuisine–and the way it leaves you feeling satisfied afterward. The book is organized by spice, revealing the ways certain spices complement one another and how they flavor other foods and create for home cooks a kind of sense-memory that allows for a more intuitive use of spice in their own dishes. The more than 100 tantalizing spice categories and recipes include: Cumin, Coriander, and Cardamom:Galette of Tender Pork with Cumin and Cider Saffron, Ginger, and Vanilla: Monkfish with Ginger, Creme Fraiche, and Seared Onions Oregano, Summer Savory, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme: Potato Risotto with Green Olives, Walnuts, and Rosemary.-.
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