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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 641.657 EAN: 9780873281997 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0873281993 Label: Huntington Library Press Manufacturer: Huntington Library Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2002-12 Publisher: Huntington Library Press Studio: Huntington Library Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: In this gorgeous cookbook, which was named the National Winner of the 2003 Tabasco Community Cookbook Awards, Shirley Kerins shares her wealth of knowledge about growing and cooking with herbs. Featuring a full range of dishes, from appetizers, salads, side dishes, soups and breads to entrees, preserves, desserts, and beverages, the book includes an innovative Pad Thai Pesto, a tried-and-true Herbed Vichyssoise, and a luscious Apple-Rosemary Tarte Tatin. Gardeners will find A Celebration of Herbs to be an essential reference, with information on cultivating, harvesting, drying, and storing herbs and an extensive listing of plant and seed suppliers in North America. Peppered throughout the cookbook are excerpts from the Huntington Library's collection of rare herbals and botanical books from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. Average Rating:
 Rating: - MarvelousMs. Kerins is a well known herbalist. Her book is informative, with easy herbal recipes & marvelous historical herbal prints. For those interested in useing herbs, knowing where to purchase reputable seeds & plants this book is a winner ! Rating: - Fresh Herbs or Dried, these growers are great cooks!A Celebration of Herbs is a cookbook that pairs herbs with the right foods in the most tantalizing ways. Compiled by long-time herb enthusiast Shirley Kerins from recipes submitted by the staff of the world-famous Huntington Gardens, this high-quality book enriches our souls as well as our palates by offering us interesting and pertinent information on the herbs we are cooking with. Especially helpful for beginning herb users is the chapter on "Learning to Use Herbs in Cooking." In this ... Read More Rating: - A Cookbook With a Difference - Learn to use HerbsAnyone interested in herbs and their uses for cooking will find "A Celebration of Herbs" a welcome addition to their personal library. The book opens with a short history of the Huntington Herb Garden. A section follows this on learning how to use herbs when cooking and includes a specific eight-step program. In addition to specific recipes, part of the point of the book is to teach the reader how to use herbs to enhance their own recipes. Some of the divisions in the book include herb ... Read More Rating: - Elegant, unique, and enthusiastically recommendedFeaturing more than 200 recipes, A Celebration Of Herbs: Recipes From The Huntington Herb Garden is the culinary collaboration of Huntington Library volunteers, staff, and scholars under the skillful editorship of herb expert Shirley Kerins and Peggy Park Bernal. Featuring a full range of dishes from appetizers, salads, side dishes, soups and breads, to entrees, preserves, desserts, and beverages, A Celebration Of Herbs is enhanced with excerpts and illustrations drawn from the Huntington Library's collection ... Read More Rating: - OUR SAGE ADVICE: BUY. EAT UP. COOK. EAT UP AGAIN.So much more than a cook's tool, this treasury is a welcome delight --- a well conceived, beautifully illustrated resoruce that's part cookbook, part history book. We thought we knew all there was to know about herbs: rosemary, dill, sage and sometimes tarragon. What we learned will serve us well, especially in those things we serve up in the kitchen. Released by the folks at the Huntington Library and Art Gallery in California, the book includes information on growing herbs, mail sources on where to buy fresh ... Read More 
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