Best book on how to cook with herbs and spices, and NO Salt?

December 14, 2011 11:26 AM

Best book on how to cook with herbs and spices, and NO Salt?

My SO is great at cooking the Gershin way (ie without salt) but I'd like to get her a gift of a guide to using herbs and spices, and still not use salt, in order to get her dishes a little more tastey.. for a holiday gift...What are your suggestions?

posted by talljamal to Food & Drink (6 answers total)

This no-salt recipe book has palatable recipes and gets good reviews.
posted by Nomyte at 12:19 PM on December 14, 2011

Do you mean Gerson?
posted by bensherman at 1:54 PM on December 14, 2011

Not a book, but Penzys Spices has a good collection of salt-free seasoning blends, which come with recipe cards. The catalogs also have lots of recipes.
posted by CheeseLouise at 2:00 PM on December 14, 2011

Response by poster: Yes Gerson. That's the one.
posted by talljamal at 3:22 PM on December 14, 2011

I kept my old books and stopped using salt. Everything tastes fine. They were good books.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 3:57 PM on December 14, 2011

If she is trying to follow Gerson - then the "rules" do not allow for spices either. If she just doesn't want to use salt, Mr. Yuck has it. Regular cookbooks - just hold the salt. The only place this will be tricky is in baking. Some recipes rely on the chemistry of salt for things like rise.
posted by Wolfie at 5:21 PM on December 14, 2011