Guild of Food Writer’s Awards, Highly Commended in ‘Specialist
Subject Cookbook’ category (2022) André Simon Awards shortlisted
(2022) "A beautiful book, and one which makes me want to cultivate
my garden just as much as scurry to the kitchen." — Nigella
Lawson "At its core this book is about cooking, but it's an
essential and valuable resource for folk who love to grow their own
herbs and cook. Sorted by individual herbs with detailed notes on
how to grow and use them, it's going to be a book I will turn to a
lot over the years." — Nik Sharma Herb is a plot-to-plate
exploration of herbs that majors on the kitchen, with just enough
of the simple art of growing to allow the reader to welcome a
wealth of home-grown flavours into their kitchen. Author Mark
Diacono is a gardener as well as a cook. Packed with ideas for
enjoying and using herbs, Herb is much more than your average
recipe book. Mark shares the techniques at the heart of
sourcing, preparing and using herbs well, enabling you to make
delicious food that is as rewarding in the process as it is in the
end result. The book explores how to use herbs, when to deploy
them, and how to capture those flavours to use when they might not
be seasonally available. The reader will become familiar with the
differences in flavour intensity, provenance, nutritional benefits
and more. Focusing on the familiars including thyme, rosemary,
basil, chives and bay, Herb also opens the door to a few
lesser-known flavours. The recipes build on bringing your herbs
alive – whether that’s a quickly swizzed parsley pesto when
short of time on a weekday evening, or in wrapping a crumbly
Lancashire cheese in lovage for a few weeks to infuse it with
bitter earthiness. With a guide to sowing, planting, feeding and
propagating herbs, there are also full plant descriptions and their
main culinary affinities. Mark then looks at various ways to
preserve herbs including making oils, drying, vinegars, syrups and
freezing, before offering over 100 innovative recipes that make the
most of your new herb knowledge.
General
Imprint: |
Quadrille Publishing Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2021 |
Authors: |
Mark Diacono
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Dimensions: |
270 x 180 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78713-635-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Sport & Leisure >
General
|
LSN: |
1-78713-635-3 |
Barcode: |
9781787136359 |
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