Tales of a Kitchen Herbwife

When I heard the Finnish Herbalist,  Henriette Kress, was bringing out her second Practical Herbs book at the end of last year, I was e...

January is always a two-faced month. It’s hard to do otherwise, given the nature of the god, Janus, from whom the month takes its name....

After twenty years of reading herb books, it takes a lot to make me excited when something new is published. Henriette Kress’ first book wri...

The last time I wrote about violets, Henriette Kress left me a comment saying, “See, I don’t get violets. We have v.tricolor and that taste...