Herbs & Spices

 

Fresh herbs and spices are the foundation of great cooking.

Wars have been fought and countries discovered because of treasured spices, an interesting start for items that in cooking offer the chance to prepare exotic, gourmet dishes, or cultural meals and a way to cut or save calories and fat in cooking.  Fresh Start Foods offers a varied line of herbs and spices, if you are not quite sure what the difference is between the two maybe this can help:

        

 

Herbs are leaves of low-growing shrubs. Examples are chives, parsley, thyme, basil, dill and marjoram. 

Spices come from the bark, root, buds, seed, berry or the fruit of tropical plants and trees. Examples are ginger, garlic and horseradish.