Hardcover: 592 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (July 21, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540222790
ISBN-13: 978-3540222798
Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 7.7 x 1.2 inches
World Spice Plants addresses the need to disseminate scientific knowledge of the complex world of spice plants to a wide audience of interest.
It considers the economic usage of spices in several forms, as an ingredient for adding flavor, as a pot herb and as an additive for condiments such as ketchup, and mustard.
Features:
Comprehensive listing of over 1400 plants
Plant nomenclature from around the world
Arranged alphabetically for ease of reference
Exhaustive register of relevant literature for further reading
Contents:
Scientific Names
Synonyms
Common Names
Usage
Plant Parts
Distribution
Notes
Literature
Index
Review:
"This encyclopedic guidebook covers over 1,400 spice plants from the world over, including economically important spice plants and aromatic plants. The lay-out of the book is simple and easy-to-read. … The extensive reference section is one of the more useful features. … The authors also include instructive color photographs of many of the plants growing in the field and in the form in which they are used … . Overall, this is an instructive and useful reference book for school libraries and food science laboratories." (Marissa Oppel, SIDA, Vol. 22 (2), 2006)
Product Description:
Despite their long tradition spices are subject to international modern scientific research. This has made it necessary to disseminate knowledge to a large audience of interest. This book addresses this need by informing the reader about the complex worldwide use of spice plants.
The many spice and aromatic plants are arranged in alphabetical order of their botanical relevance. It includes all species which have been cultivated for the above purposes. It also covers species whose usage has long ceased or which are used only rarely or have become wild. In this respect the author has aimed at comprehensiveness. In total over 1400 plants have been collated.
The very extensive register of literature has been designed to facilitate intensive study of a specific plant or spice. Works both on botany and agriculture, and on chemistry, pharmacodynamics and usage have been considered.
The book is aimed principally at spice and aroma experts, pharmacists, botanists and interested lay persons. But the author also had in mind food chemists, dieticians and agricultural scientists, for whom botany, chemistry and pharmacological aspects may be of interest. It is hoped that those occupied in the spice and aroma industry involved in creating spice blends and the like will also take inspiration from the book.
Source : http://www.amazon.com/World-Spice-Plants-Economic-Taxonomy/dp/3540222790
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