The cook's herb garden
By: Jeff Cox & Marie-Pierre Moine
Contributors: Moine, Marie-Pierre
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: DK Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780756658694
Description: With a catalog of 150 different culinary herbs and their varieties, more than 30 recipes, step-by-step photographs on how to plant, nurture, harvest, and store herbs, and flavor charts that list the best herbs to partner with popular ingredients, "The Cook's Herb Garden" is an ideal reference.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Choose. Planted pots and baskets ; The herb catalog; title: Grow. Climate ; Planning ; Soil ; Growing from seed ; Growing young plants ; Propagating ; Feeding and watering ; Weed control ; Improving your harvest ; Pests ; Diseases; title: Harvest and store. Reaping the harvest ; Short-term storage ; Freezing ; Drying; title: Cook. Preparation ; Flavorings ; The recipes ; Herbal teas ; Partner charts.