The Random House Book of Herbs for Cooking (Garden Plant)

A lavishly illustrated guide to herb gardening explains how to select and cultivate the best herbs for use in the kitchen, examining the various herbs, offering tips on herb cookery, and describing how to grow herbs in borders, pots, and window boxes. Original. 25,000 first printing.

sable new reference book for every herb enthusiast

With over 400 plants illustrated in full color, this is the most comprehensive photographic guide to herbs and plants grown all over the world for their culinary and medicinal properties.

Included are descriptions of the plants' distinctive features for identification, botanical information showing where each is found, and how to grow it or gather it from the wild. The text relates the history of the plant, describes its traditional uses in cooking, medicine, or cosmetics, and where appropriate details modem research supporting long-held beliefs about the effectiveness of the plant.