Herbal bouquets are a great way to dress up your windowsills and your meals. (Beverages, too!) Most herbs are sturdy plants that will last a week or more in a vase, especially if you refresh them with cool water every day. And the best part about having herbs close at hand is that you’re more [...]
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An egg is a nearly-perfect food, replete in vitamins and minerals (except Vitamin C) and with more accessible protein than a steak. It’s comes in convenient packaging and can be eaten in every conceivable way — baked, hard-boiled, scrambled, souffléd, pan-fried, poached, even raw (although the latter is only advisable if you’re on a first-name [...]
Windowsills are a great place to grow kitchen herbs and sprouts. If you have an unobstructed east- or west-facing window, whatever you choose to plant will have a very happy home; if you give your plant some toothsome kitchen scraps, it’ll have an even happier home. (In my case, whenever I use eggs, I add [...]
Herbs and spices have been used for millenia for culinary, medical, cosmetic, and religious purposes. Spices have been actively traded on an international level ever since 2,000 B.C.E., when Arab traders brought back pepper, cloves, nutmegs, and other delicacies from the famed Spice Islands (the Molucca islands off the coast of Indonesia). In the 1400s, [...]
