Learn to COOK - The Complete Book of Herbs: A Practical Guide to Growing and Using Herbs
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List Price: $21.95
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Manufacturer: Studio
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 635
EAN: 9780140238020
ISBN: 0140238026
Label: Studio
Manufacturer: Studio
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 1994-09-01
Publisher: Studio
Studio: Studio
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Editorial Reviews:
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With more than 340,000 copies sold in hardcover, this essential, full-color resource is now available in paperback. Revealing the enormous potential of herbs, this sourcebook includes information on planting, growing, and harvesting herbs, as well as the main uses of herbs. It also offers an exhaustive identification guide, recipes, ideas for gifts, and much more.
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Summary: Great thorough product
Comment: Very informative on most herbs. Conspicuously skirts around those herbs that should be used wisely (Cohosh, echinacea, St. John's Wart), but provides plenty of ideas and projects for the more common 'safe' herbs.
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Summary: BOOK OF HERBS
Comment: Great book at fraction of original price. Really helped me out on my trip. Very informative.
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Summary: Excellent, but...
Comment: This is an excellent book, but there are a couple of drawbacks. First, and most annoying, is the ordering of the herbs by scientific name. Makes it hard to find the herb you're looking for. Second, it's a large book, takes up a lot of space on the table and doesn't fit on all shelves.
It has served me well enough, but I recently came across Your Backyard Herb Garden: A Gardener's Guide to Growing Over 50 Herbs Plus How to Use Them in Cooking, Crafts, Companion Planting and More and I have to say this is the book I would pick up instead, in retrospect. I may even buy it anyway. It's small, has all the reference information in this one (and then some), and more readily available.
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Summary: Superb general herbal (minimal gardening how-to)
Comment: This is a simply marvelous book. It is a mystery to me why it is not continuously in print. Do not hesitate to buy this used from Amazon Marketplace sellers, as I did.
The book is large and beautifully fashioned and produced, with gorgeous full-color photographs not only of each herb, but of dozens of different species of each herb, and of every possible use to which herbs can be put. There are full-color pictures of crafts, teas, household items, massage how-to illustrations, dyes--to say nothing of prepared food dishes; this is actually a cookbook within an herbal!
ONE CAVEAT: if you are looking for an in-depth gardening how-to, with exhaustive planting info, you might want a supplement for this book, which sticks to the basics. But every other herb-related topic is embellished and elaborated on. There are dozens of pages with full-color, labeled illustrations of different "theme" gardens you can plan. Whole chapters EACH on potpurri, herbal cosmetics, dyes, medicines, and household cleaners. Fabulous, unique homemade gift items like herbal-scented beads--that's right, painted beads made entirely out of herbs and plants!
The food/cooking section alone is worth the price of the book. The dishes are fantastic. I have already made the Sweet Rosemary Slices and several teas and drinks, and they are wonderful. Almost every recipe has a full-color photo.
I could go on and on, but rather than waste your time, I will leave you to hit "Add To Shopping Cart."
Money has rarely been this well-spent.
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Summary: The Best Herb Book
Comment: Unless you want extreme detail, you only need one book on herbs and this is it - whether for gardening or for culinary or medicinal insights, crafts or whatever. It's all here - and concise. I love to grow and use herbs and tossed the library my other herb books.
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