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The Culinary Herb FAQ: All you ever wanted to know - and ask on a newsgroup - more often than once a month - about culinary herbs. A FAQ for rec.gardens, alt.folklore.herbs, and the culinary herblist. Version 1.17d.

ANTIMICROBIAL EFFECTS OF SPICES AND HERBS Spices and herbs have been used for thousands of centuries by many cultures to enhance the flavor and aroma of foods. Early cultures also recognized the value of using spices and herbs in preserving foods and for their medicinal value. Scientific experiments since the late 19th century have documented the antimicrobial properties of some spices, herbs, and their components

Medicinal Spices Exhibit - UCLA Biomedical Library- History ...

Salt Everything you could possibly want to know about salt - and more. Truly fascinating site with some surprising links to even more helpful and informative sites.

encyclopedia of spices not exactly all-inclusive, but there are good articles below the list of spices. See also: Herb and spice reference chart and dictionary.

Everything Garlic - Main Page This page answers ALL the questions you might have about garlic.

Spices and Herbs for the Home Garden. Under New Mexico conditions, an area 10 ft x 12 ft will provide ample space for an herb garden for an average-sized family. It is wise to keep perennials and biennials on one side of the garden and keep annuals, which must be replanted each year, on the other side.

Essential Spices -- NathanKramer.com The seven most essential spices and seasonings. This list is a great place to begin if you are just learning to cook, packing a camp box, or planning on being marooned on an island.

The most essential spices Keep your spice cabinet well-stocked as this is key to easier cooking and baking. It is recommended to keep the following spices, herbs and flavors on-hand

A list of spices featuring the history, uses and growing of a new ... learn more about the history, uses, growing habits and recipes of many savory spices and herbs.

Spice Library Need to know more about spices? Step into where you can find a plethora of information on spices. Here you can find any information you always wanted to know about spices and much more.

Growing your own ginger Ginger (Zingiber officinale) needs rich, well-drained, moist soil and plenty of indirect sunlight and water. It is frost-sensitive, and mostly grown in the subtropics and tropics. It will grow from a healthy piece of root planted in spring.

Conscious Choice- Grow and Dry Your Own Herbs and Spices

Cilantro - eHow.com You can grow this Mediterranean native for its leaves, which are known as cilantro, or for its dried seeds, called coriander. It's an annual herb that will grow in USDA zone 3 and warmer, but it thrives in damp, cool springs and hot, dry summers.

Domestic Production of Spices and Herbs About 50 kinds of spices and herbs are annually imported into this country. Knowledge of the source for these products may provide some information about growing needs and cultivation practices of these plants. Many of the most familiar spices such as allspice, black pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, are fruits or seeds from perennial woody plants adapted to tropical climates. Such plants can not be grown on commercial scale in the U.S. However, some 40% of the spices and herbs from the list of imports are of the annual and short growing season crops. A number of these cultivars could be grown commercially in many areas of the U.S. In fact, a great number of these are now grown on commercial scale on farms on the West Coast. For a variety of reasons, American farmers do not seem to be fully exposed to the potentials of these crops if grown on contractual basis and for commercial scale.

CNN - Herbs and Spices CNN presents a colorful chart listing the source and best uses for many popular condiments.

Growing, Harvesting, and Using Culinary Herbs in the Home Garden ... Herbs are various kinds of herbaceous plants whose fresh or dried parts are used to season foods, provide fragrances, supply natural dyes, or make industrial or pharmaceutical products. Culinary herbs are ones which fresh or dried leaves are used in cooking. Some of the common culinary herbs are basil, French tarragon, rosemary, and thyme.

Herbs and Spices, Commercial Vegetable Production Guides, North ... Valuable web resources on herbs in general include the Herbs Directory operated by the Dept. of Horticulture at Pennsylvania State University, and Herb/Spice Industry from the Alberta Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Development, Herb Growing and Marketing Network , International Herb Assoc., and Growing and Selling Fresh-Cut Herbs. Books include 'Culinary Herbs' by Ernest Small, published by the National Research Council of Canada, and 'The Cornell Book of Herbs and Edible Flowers' by Jeanne Mackin (Cornell Coop. Extension), and 'Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs', from Rodale Press. Newsletters include 'The Herb, Spice, and Medicinal Plant Digest', edited by L.E. Craker, Dept. of Plant & Soil Sciences, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, and Herb World, from The Herb Growing and Marketing Network.

The Spice Trade, A Taste of Adventure from the Economist is a fascinating accounting of how the history of the spice trade is the history of commerce and modern civilization.

Spices, or the Dawn of the Modern Age from Tastes of Paradise, a social history of spices, stimulants and intoxicants.

Pepper: King of Spices tells how pepper virtually changed the course of history by playing a key role in the development of trade and conquest.

Spice Advice — how to make the most of spices, which spices to use with particular foods, when to add them, grinding, storage and more.

An Ode to Olive Oil provides a brief history of olive oil.

Chiles: A World Tour explores culinary examples of chile use around the world.

Ginger- Fresh Flavour that Packs Heat has culinary tips about using ginger in its various incarnations.

Grow your own Ginger provides detailed instructions on growing ginger in pots.

Using Oregano offers culinary tips about using this robust herb, as well as its cousin, marjoram

Getting the most out of saffron explains how to shop for saffron and optimize a pinch for flavour and colour.

Harvesting and Drying Herbs  is a comprehensive guide to harvesting herbs, drying, freezing, making herb butters, oils and vinegars, pot pourris, etc. Briefly deals with many herbs individually.

Herbs and Spices Fight Disease Most of us look at spices as a way to perk up the plate but are you aware of their potential to fight disease? Look here for some recent findings.

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