Mark Diacono
Herb: A Cook's Companion
Herb: A Cook's Companion
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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 flavors into their kitchen. Author Mark Diacono is a gardener as well as a cook, and the book explores how to use herbs, when to deploy them, and how to capture those flavors to use when they might not be seasonally available. It also includes a guide to sowing, planting, feeding, and propagating herbs, as well as full plant descriptions and their main culinary affinities.
Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 15 April 2021
Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd
Guild of Food Writers 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.
— Nik Sharma
Herb: 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 flavors 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 flavors to use when they might not be seasonally available.
The reader will become familiar with the differences in flavor 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 flavors.
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 he, Herb
is a must-have for any herb enthusiast or kitchen gardener looking to expand their culinary repertoire and embrace the joys of growing their own herbs.
Whether you're a seasoned chef or a novice gardener, this book will inspire you to unleash the full potential of herbs in your cooking and garden endeavors.
Get your copy of Herb today and embark on a culinary journey like no other!
Weight: 1160g
Dimension: 187 x 279 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781787136359
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