"With their timeless flavor and aroma, uplifting spirits, calming quantities, and genuine healing benefits, herbs are the original power plants. In this unique cookbook and herbal, Pat Crocker unlocks their secrets and offers newly imagined recipes alongside traditional techniques for harnessing their gifts. Pat takes you on a fascinating journey to uncover root, stem, leaf, and flower alchemy for being, living, and eating well. From angelica to turmeric, tincture to tagine, infusions and essential oils, [this book] is a revolutionary herbal cookbook. You'll learn how to detoxify with herbs, what herbs to use in tonics and cough syrups, where to plant Clove Pinks and Sea Buckthorn, and when to add robust herbs to dishes as they cook."--Back cover.