Pantry guide
Best Lavender for home cooking
What Lavender is for, which kitchens use it, and where to find a jar worth cooking with.
Why cooks start here
Flower as spice — a pinch in herbes de Provence, a warning if you add a handful.
In French cooking, Lavender is not decoration. Add it where the recipe puts it: early if it needs fat and time, late if it is perfume.
Taste Lavender before you empty the spoon. Fresh jars smell like themselves; tired ones smell like dust. Buy the smallest amount you will finish.
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