With so many recipes and ingredients, we often don’t know how different ingredients taste on their own and what effect they have on your dish.
View details about the different ingredients and how to use them in your dishes, potential health benefits and decorative uses.
The knowledge and study of herbs and spices is nearly as old as mankind itself. Many cuttings and seeds from the Mediterranean plants were transported across the Alps by the Romans and Missionary Monks, enriching their herb gardens. Later many new variants emerged, thanks to crossbreeding.
Spice Varieties Described
A spice is a seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance primarily used for flavoring or coloring food. Spices are distinguished from herbs, which are the leaves, flowers, or stems of plants used for flavoring or as a garnish.
Herb Varieties Described
Culinary herbs are distinguished from vegetables in that, like spices, they are used in small amounts and provide flavour rather than substance to a dish.
Cheese Varieties Described
Cheese is a dairy product produced in wide ranges of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep.
Cheese Described