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Meet the little book that makes your herb garden (or windowsill pots) feel like a storybook: Herbal Handbook curated by the New York Botanical Garden, featuring fifty herbs with histories as rich as their flavors. From woodruff once used as a medieval room freshener to bergamot for soothing bee stings and fenugreek seeds found in King Tut’s tomb, it’s part history lesson, part garden manual, part kitchen inspiration.
Features:
Profiles of 50 herbs, organized alphabetically for easy browsing
Rare botanical illustrations showing seed, stem, flower, and leaf structure for each herb
Background on each plant’s history, folklore, and traditional uses
Practical growing tips so you can cultivate herbs at home, whether in beds, pots, or a small balcony garden
Everyday applications, from how herbs are used now to simple ways to bring them into your daily life
A recipe or project at the end of each profile—think soups, salads, cocktails, syrups, tinctures, teas, shrubs, potpourri, and sachets
How we style it:
Keep it open on a stand in the kitchen next to a jar of wooden spoons and a pot of herbs, or stack it with your favorite cookbooks and garden titles on a side table. We love flipping through it in the morning to pick an herb “of the day” to cook with, sip as tea, or dry for a little project—turning ordinary meals and moments into tiny rituals rooted in the garden.
Meet the little book that makes your herb garden (or windowsill pots) feel like a storybook: Herbal Handbook curated by the New York Botanical Garden, featuring fifty herbs with histories as rich as their flavors. From woodruff once used as a medieval room freshener to bergamot for soothing bee stings and fenugreek seeds found in King Tut’s tomb, it’s part history lesson, part garden manual, part kitchen inspiration.
Features:
Profiles of 50 herbs, organized alphabetically for easy browsing
Rare botanical illustrations showing seed, stem, flower, and leaf structure for each herb
Background on each plant’s history, folklore, and traditional uses
Practical growing tips so you can cultivate herbs at home, whether in beds, pots, or a small balcony garden
Everyday applications, from how herbs are used now to simple ways to bring them into your daily life
A recipe or project at the end of each profile—think soups, salads, cocktails, syrups, tinctures, teas, shrubs, potpourri, and sachets
How we style it:
Keep it open on a stand in the kitchen next to a jar of wooden spoons and a pot of herbs, or stack it with your favorite cookbooks and garden titles on a side table. We love flipping through it in the morning to pick an herb “of the day” to cook with, sip as tea, or dry for a little project—turning ordinary meals and moments into tiny rituals rooted in the garden.