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The Science Behind Bruising Your Herbs

By now, most of us are pretty proficient when it comes to using fresh herbs in the kitchen. They're hands down one of the best ways to impart fresh, clean flavors into your food, but did you know s...

What's Your Favorite Fresh Herb?

I love fresh herbs, and it is really hard to choose one favorite, but I would have to say that my favorite fresh herb is sage. I love the soft, fuzzy texture. The earthy smell. The silvery-green co...

Quick Tip: How to Strip the Leaves from Herbs

Picking each individual leaf from a sprig of rosemary or thyme is one of the most boring and mind-numbing kitchen tasks we can think of. Happily, there is a little trick that makes it much easier!...

Hot or Not? Herbs in Tubes from Gourmet Garden

There are some products, like tomato paste and wasabi, that we love to keep around in tube form. But herbs? ...

From the Herb Garden: Chervil

Chervil is another herb that we'd really like to use more often, but can never think how. It looks like parsley and tastes like mild basil, but it's flavor has a tendency to evaporate into thin air in...

National Food Roundup: Goat Cheese, From Prison
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 7.15.09

That fancy goat cheese you're eating? It may have started its journey to your plate from a prison in Colorado. Also in this week's roundup, fresh herbs at the center of Vietnamese cooking and the plea...

From the Spice Cupboard: Herbes de Provence

If you can't actually make it to Provence this summer, cooking up dishes filled with the flavors of Provence is the next best thing. Even just a sprinkling of herbes de provence is enough to transport...

Herb Keeper from Crate & Barrel

How do you store your fresh herbs? If you don't have the luxury of an herb garden, where you can snip as needed, then you are probably bringing home bunches of herbs that need to be used bit by bit. D...

Tips: Three Ways To Preserve Fresh Herbs

We cook with loads of fresh herbs in summer, but sometimes we find that we've snipped or bought more than we can use right away. Rather than let them go to waste, here are three ways to save herbs for...

Store Review: Penzeys Spices

If you've only ever ordered from Penzeys Spices online and have never been to a brick-and-mortar store, we highly recommend seeing if there's one in your area. For home cooks like us, visiting the sto...

Ingredient Spotlight: Lavender Sea Salt

Look at this lovely lavender salt given to me by a friend. It's a wet, rough salt with all the herbal fragrance of lavender infused in big, flaky chunks of salt. It's absolutely delicious, but I also ...

Kitchen Gallery: Living Plants in the Kitchen

Are you craving a little green this time of year? How about some plants in your kitchen? Herbs, ivy, potted flowers? We love having fresh herbs to snip, but even non-edible plants brighten a kitchen a...

Flavor Combinations: Beans, Herbs, and Spices

With all the bean talk this month, we started thinking about which herbs and spices go well with specific varieties of beans. In general, most beans go well with herbs like parsley, rosemary, sage, sa...

Help! Can Our Rosemary Plant Survive Indoors?

We became addicted to fresh rosemary this summer and are loath to give it up. But we live in Boston and our apartment doesn't get very good sunlight - is there any hope our rosemary can survive the wi...

How To: Make An Herb or Spice-Infused Ice Cream

Today I was going to give you a recipe for Peach Basil Ice Cream (and I still can if you want) but I was starting to feel fatigued with the ice-cream-heavy weight of our recipe archives. Instead, in ...

Quick Tip: Save Leftover Herbs in Ice Cubes

No matter what, we always seem to end up with leftover herbs after making a recipe. A single sprig of thyme. An extra teaspoon of chopped oregano. A leaf or two of basil. Since they're not quite enou...

Help! Is Something Wrong With Our Herbs?

We noticed these little wispy cobwebs on our oregano the other morning. We didn't see any arachnid or insect activity, so we assumed it was a little gift left by a night visitor to our container garde...

Good Question: When Can I Harvest My Basil?

One of the most frequent questions we've noticed during Garden Month is a general one about cutting herbs. Since herbs are one of the easiest things to grow indoors or in a container, we expect that m...

Cooking By Feel: French Ingredients and Flavors

French cuisine is perhaps the one kind of cooking where almost all of us feel uncomfortable off-roading it without a recipe. Julia Child, Jacques Pepin and other chefs of the last fifty years have pu...

Gardening Questions for Jennifer: How Can I Plant a Variety of Herbs and Vegetables in a Container Garden?

We asked for gardening questions for kitchen gardening expert Jennifer Bartley. Here's an answer to two of your questions. Susmita asks: I have always had a brown thumb, but I would like to grow so...

Good Question: Sources for Potted Herbs in New York City

Can you recommend a good spot to get potted herbs in Manhattan or Williamsburg? Thanks in advance! - Linda (To All Good Questions)...

Video: Demonstrating the Prepara Herb-Savor
International Home and Housewares Show 2008

Prepara is a small company based right in New York City. They make sleek, modern-designed kitchen tools that try to answer old problems in new ways. We had seen one of their signature products, ...

Good Product: Trio Herb Pot

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day and Spring, this cheerful and bursting-with-green Trio Herb Pot from A+R Store is perfect for our windowsill....

Hot or Not: Herbs With Chocolate?

It started with a Pierre Marcolini chocolate. Two weeks ago, we tried his dark chocolate ganache infused with thyme and orange peels. And though the idea seemed strange, it really worked – the choco...

Good Question: How Can I Grow Mint Indoors?

Here's a good question from reader Jen on growing mint indoors in the winter. We are longing for some fresh mint too, so we're doing some research. The dreary, overcast weather in Athens, Ohio has ...

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