What truly separates Mediterranean food from other cuisines is its use of specific spices and herbs to enhance recipes and ...

Tampa (BLOOM) – Growing and harvesting your own cooking herbs is a rewarding experience that adds freshness and flavor to your culinary creations. Whether you have a spacious garden or a small balcony ...

Most herbs are weeds, which is the source of their potency. They can survive in all kinds of soil and air temperatures. Some of them, such as peppermint, can spread rapidly, taking over your garden, ...

With the height of summer comes a bounty of fresh herbs in backyard gardens and farmers’ markets. Fragrant basil, cooling mint, earthy rosemary and bright parsley can transform simple dishes into ...

I am a terrible gardener. I hate weeding, and within weeks of planting anything, the tomato, pepper and other plants start to become overrun with unwanted greenery, and it’s just not a pretty sight.

Imagine cooking and eating without fresh herbs. It would be perfectly possible, but oh, it would be dull. Think of eating a piece of warm focaccia that lacked the uplift of rosemary. Or consider ...

Despite the fact that I grew up in a family that considered parsley a garnish and never grew chives or garlic in the garden, I have been interested in growing and cooking with herbs for years. I love ...

Winter is coming, but if you want fresh herbs throughout the cold season, here is what you should be cultivating in your home ...

We all want to eat food that tastes good. One of the most common ways we tend to make food taste good is by adding salt. Unfortunately, most American diets are too high in sodium. Diets high in sodium ...

Madalene Hill and Gwen Barclay eat their words every day. Of course, that’s not half bad since the famous mother and daughter duo travel the South lecturing on roses, rosemary, basil and about 2,000 ...

After working as editor of various computer magazines, Kevin Weeks is now a personal chef in Knoxville, Tenn. He specializes in cooking with a Mediterranean accent, filling plates with the flavors of ...