Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3419114 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Synopsis
A unique kitchen-garden herbal guide to setting up a healing garden of herbs, medicinal plants and other edible plants and vegetables - with exciting heirloom and contemporary recipes. Levender oil to help you sleep - and for a deliciously soothing creme brulee...fennel to aid digestion - and for a refreshingly cool salad with apple...dandelion as an effective blood purifier - and for a tasty lasagne with shitakes. These are just some of the amazing uses and unique tastes featured in The Herbal Epicure, a one-of-a kind treasury of practical gardening instruction, healing techniques and fantastic recipes. Here are miracle medicines and folk wisdom passed down from generation to generation, the latest scientific confirmation of the efficacy of these traditional remedies, and innovative contemporary and heirloom recipes for favourite and newly rediscovered herbs. Carefully researched, this A - Z collection presents more than one hundred herbs, healing plants, and restorative fruits and vegetables.

It tells everything needed for tapping into each herb's potent properties, including: How to cultivate them - indoors and out; the uses of stems, leaves, flowers and roots; preparing medicinal foods, teas, infusions, tinctures and ointments. The Herbal Epicure gives readers the wherewithal for a lifelong partnership with the earth - and all the joys of good gardening, good food and good health.