Topic: Seeking help for info on herbs & spices

[Malc.]

Hi all,


Once again I turn to the forum for help. I am trying to compile a full and complete list of herbs and spices with simple descriptions of taste.


I have scoured the internet for a reliable source that contains a full list but have yet to find any that are reliable or complete.


If anyone can point me to a reliable and complete source, I would be very grateful indeed.


Thanks in advance,


Malc.

[PhilUK]

Hello Axe
I had the same problem-until I found this site

http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/index.html

Very useful as it gives translationsin to lots of languages.
Hope this Is whatyou were looking for.

Phil

[Peripatetic Phil]

Excellent reference, other-Phil.  Also worth hunting out is J S Pruthi's most excellent "Spices and Condiments", one of just three food-related books [1]  selected by Ajoy Joshi in a recent post.  Now out of print, but not as hard to find as Chef Joshi suggests.  There is a highly debatable section devoted to Kalunji and Kala Jeera, which seems to conflate the two, but that is the only textual error I spotted, although the page collation (of my copy, at least) leaves a little to be desired !

** Phil.
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[1] The other two being Larousse Gastronomique   and Herring

[Malc.]

PhilUK, very useful indeed, the links on each page seem very useful too.

Phil, I think the above site will cover most, do you mind if I ask you to have a look at your book should I come up short on certain spices?

Thanks to both of you.

If anyone has any other site they think is worth a look at, please feel free to contribute to what I hope will be a valuable topic for the forum.

Thanks once again.

Malc

[Peripatetic Phil]

Phil, do you mind if I ask you to have a look at your book should I come up short on certain spices?

A pleasure : ask away.
** Phil.