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Edible Herbs, And The Plants That Add Flavor (Incredible Edible)
Edible Herbs And The Plants That Add Flavor - Incredible Edible Author:Ralph W. Ritchie, Fern J. Ritchie One of the last things you should do in times of stress, for whatever reason, is to change the diet or menu of your family, especially the children. Foods are a source of comfort and reassurance, and that is primary when things go wrong. It is not the time to run out of the seasonings you usually use in cooking. No matter whether the market cann... more »ot sell them any more, or whether inflation removes them from your budget, GROW your own. The best way to insure that this doesn t happen is to grow the herbs and seasonings you normally use. Here is the book that identifies those plants. On the other hand, when foods get boring at the dinner table, here is a source of seasonings that will add excitement to what your family eats. This book belongs on every gardener s shelf or in the kitchen. Some question has been raised about the validity and originality of the Edible Book Series. Over the eight years of their writing, our 2,000 sq ft greenhouse, the quarter acre garden and another park-like acre served as the proving grounds for her writing. The information collected was mainly west of the great divide, but not limited to the West. Over half of our lives was spent in California, from San Diego county- north. We lived in six distinctly different locations and climates from the sea shore, to desert, to mountainous. Previous to digital cameras, we stored several thousand plant negatives, truly grateful for the arrival of scanners, megabyte storage and still confounded by gigabyte media. An undiscovered leak in our storage area ruined over 3,000 negatives. The five or six hundred CDs we have now stores the wide variety of photographs found in our books, 3,000 of which are in the Incredible Edible Series. Until photopaint software took over the task, our darkroom was frequently occupied. Fern consulted every plant book source we could find. Fern lists, for example, the seed viability range from all sources as well as the consensus in years. The same information is included for germination time, soaking and other pretreatment, the country or location of origin, Latin, common , and foreign names, as well as how to prepare the edible parts for eating. A cross-reference listing of plant sources for seeds and cuttings is also provided in each book.« less