Dimensions
152 x 229 x 19mm
Tom Stobart's authoritative reference guide to herbs, spices, and flavourings, quite literally, defines good taste. This comprehensive volume discusses nearly four hundred different herbs, spices, and flavourings found all over the world.From Almond to Zedoary, each entry includes a detailed description of native uses, origins, and history; magical, medicinal, and scientific uses; and botanical, native, and popular names. There are also knowledgeable assessments of the gradations in taste and intensity, and the effects of cooking, freezing, pickling and maturing on every spice, herb, and flavouring covered - a feature all cooks will surely appreciate.No other work in print has ever covered with such exhausting precision this important subject, making the book a veritable bible for all cooks, gardeners, or horticulturists.
