01 July 2025

Are fresh herbs better than dried?

Food & crime writer Orlando Murrin has recently been writing a series of Myth Busters around food, culminating in a feature in The Times this weekend (Saturday 5th July), with his latest myth to bust being that fresh herbs are better than dried. In o...

20 May 2024

A Herb Tasting Exercise from Aromatherapist Ellen Rowland

Tasting a herb without knowing what it is will free you of all preconceptions – try it in this exercise.

14 May 2024

The Healing Power of Scent - book review and interview with herbalist Ellen Rowland

In her new book, The Healing Power of Scent, aromatherapist and author Ellen Rowland dives deep into the most mysterious and ephemeral of the five senses – scent – and explores how we can use our own unique responses to the smells we find in the worl...

13 May 2011

Spices, spices everywhere

We had a visit recently from Helen Best-Shaw of FussFreeFlavours, who is a lovely lady - other bloggers welcome.  She asked many interesting questions and one of them got me thinking and that was why are we so interested in spices.  It certainly is n...

05 February 2010

Steenbergs Launches New Design For Spice Tins

At Steenbergs, we have been doing a lot of work trying to refresh parts of our organic spices and seasonings range.  Now we have relaunched our spice tins into a bright new label and an elegant rolled tin.

30 July 2009

Herbs and Spices for Your Health

Herbal medicine has historically been the primary approach to acute and chronic health problems - this remains the case still in many countries.  We often forget that herbal medicine is the most enduring form of treatment and is still used by 80% of...