Herbs for the Kitchen Author:Irma Mazza How many cook books of your acquaintance keep breaking irrepressibly into snatches of Milton or Thackeray or Lewis Carroll,or Ogden Nash on the gastronomic horrors that once passed for salads? How many are generously sprinkled with illustrations from Renaissance herbals? this is the sort of book you will always be picking up at a low ebb of insp... more »iration-'Let's see what Irma Mazza has to say'-and happily losing yourself in, for the rest of the day." -Bon Appetit
This third, revised edition of Irma Goodrich Mazza's classic cookbook - first published in 1939 - enthusiastically demonstrates that inspired recipes and entertaining prose never lose their appeal. With a pinch of this and a dash of that, Mrs. Mazza transforms prosaic meals into culinary feasts as readily as she sprinkles her text with the legends, superstitions, and folklore of herbs-small wonder she has been a welcome guest in the kitchen for decades.
In Herbs for the Kitchen, Mrs. Mazza proposes that just sic herbs will make you a good cook, while mastery of twenty-five, covering their appearances, aroma, planting, cultivation, harvesting, and best uses. She also discusses other essential seasonings: onions, shallots, spices, vinegar, lemon juice, wine, and garlic. Some 275 simple, tried and true recipes employ these herbs and seasonings to delicious advantage; they include one dish meals, herbal salads, soups, meats, fish, past, rice, vegetables, and a whole chapter of " Just Conceits."« less