Cooking with garden herbs

Listen to the hymn of praise of the unsurpassed Waverly Root in the preface of the book Herbs and Spices (1980), which I briefly summarize: Herbs and spices are the poetry of our food. Unlike grain, meat, rice, and fish, they appeal not only to the taste but also to our sense of smell. Try sowing herbs on your garden path so that you enter a fragrant cloud as you walk. The famous Australian landscape architect Edna Walling underscored this point: you have not lived if you have never lain  flat on your middle on a thyme lawn. At the same time, herbs are also the music of food… the piccolo sounds of chives, the trumpet blast of chili peppers…the viola has heard of saffron, the cello of onions…All together a full symphony of tastes.