The Herbal Kitchen: Cooking with Fragrance and Flavor

by Jerry Traunfeld

Book Overview

The secret to transforming easy dishes into extraordinary meals? Fresh herbs. In The Herbal Kitchen , IACP award-winning cookbook author and acclaimed Herbfarm Restaurant chef Jerry Traunfeld presents simple dishes using herbs straight from the market, windowsill, or garden. Until recently, the fresh herbs available in supermarkets were limited to parsley and maybe dill. Today, thyme, rosemary, basil, cilantro, mint, and sage are among the many fresh...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060599766
• ISBN13: 9780060599768
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

A green kitchen

If you've always cooked with herbs, but always rushed off to the grocery store to get them fresh for your recipes, now is the time to stop and pick them fresh out of your own garden or pot! This book has a lot of great detailed information about how to grow, cut and cook with herbs. There are also a lot of pictures so you're not left wondering what something, you may never have seen before, should look like. The recipes are easy and tasty, the information is simple and this book makes a great gift or center piece on any coffee table. You'll be entertaining guests with your new recipes, indoor herb pots and wonderful cookbook, while explaining it all, in no time.

One of the best cookbooks published with simple recipes!

I have a bookcase full of great cook books. This is one of the best I have ever used because the recipes are simple and so full of flavor and one is better the next. Most recipes have no more than seven or eight ingredients and the photos included really represent the final dish.

Even Better than The Herbfarm Cookbook

I have both of Traunfeld's cookbooks. I have had great success with the Herbfarm Cookbook, and did not think that there could be a better effort, but the Herbal Kitchen is even better. They are different books and I will use both, but the Herbal Kitchen includes more fabulous dishes that you can put together on a weeknight. The Herbfarm Cookbook is a much more thorough compendium of recipies and herb growing/properties information. Get them both.

Accessible and Divine!

The recipes in Jerry's new book are well-written, easy to follow, novel, and delicious. Every single recipe is worth serving to guests, yet simple enough to make for a weeknight meal. Anyone with access to fresh herbs - and who appreciates the creative spirit of cooking - should buy this book.