Cooking with Fresh Herbs E-Book
This e-book or electronic cookbook is the result of requests from guests at my restaurant One Block West in Winchester, Virginia and from readers of my blog One Blog West. Because I wanted it to be readily downloadable, it is necessarily small.
This book collects in one convenient location information from my blog about 11 commonly used herbs along with recipes from the blog and some brand new recipes from the restaurant for your enjoyment. Each recipe illustrates one of the herbs that we grow and use frequently at the restaurant. The recipes in this book are in part the result of a demonstration of cooking with herbs that I perform annually at the State Arboretum of Virginia, where the staff is kind enough to permit me use what I will from their vast collection of herbs.
Selecting recipes for this annual demonstration is difficult for me because literally almost everything I cook involves fresh herbs. I had the very same problem in selecting the recipes for this book.
I’ve often said that one of the key differences between home cooking and restaurant cooking is the lavish use of fresh herbs in restaurant cooking. This book will give you a lot of ideas for elevating your home cooking to the next level. I’ve chosen each of these recipes as suitable for the moderately advanced and curious home chef.
I hope that you enjoy this book and I also hope that you will feel free to send it to your friends. They are welcome to use the book in any non-commercial manner.
