This beautifully produced oversize paperback describes 47 herbs and six edible flowers with information on their culinary and household uses, and how to grow and prepare them. The author adds interesting background information and herb lore, and Bruce Wang supplies dozens of marvelous full-page color photos.
Jeanne Mackin is the author of The Beautiful American and A Lady of Good Family. In addition to several other novels as well as short fiction and creative nonfiction, she is the author of the Cornell Book of Herbs and Edible Flowers and co-editor of The Norton Book of Love. She lives with her husband in upstate New York.