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Why Herbs? Primarily as a means of 
adding zest to eating by making food 
more enjoyable. If you are in the habit of 
using fresh herbs, or properly cured dried 
herbs you can appreciate what a decided 
difference the addition of herbs to food 
can make. 
Unfortunately the common use of 
herbs in cooking has disappeared from the 
American table in the past two generations. 
‘Herbs? Oh. yes, my grandmother used 
them’, one hears it said so many times, 
but these self same people have no idea 
how they themselves would go about 
using them. 
The only accountable reason for the 
decline in herbal usage lies in the fact 
that people today are in such a rush to go 
somewhere and do something eating has 
become a routine matter of filling a cav- 
ity. Food enjoyment has become a lost art. 
Fortunately people are once more re- 
alizing how herbs in food can give it that 
extra something which makes -the differ- 
ence between a creation and the same 
“Old stew’. 
The use of herbs in food goes way back 
to the earliest days of civilization. 
Through long usage, many strange and 
supernatural therapeutic powers were at- 
tributed to them. Today we can discount 
much of the weird and supernatural but 
do recognize that herbs have certain bene- 
ficial therapeutic qualities and most of all 
impart flavors which excite the palate 
and aroma that please the sense of smell. 
If you are a user of herbs you can readily 
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