Interesting Site on Spices

Here's a great site for those of us who are interested in the spices in our food: Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages. This site provides information on over 100 spices, from ajwain to zedoary. Many of them (like zedoary or perilla or rocket) are ones I've never heard of. For each spice there is a wealth of information: · translations of the name of the spice into many different languages · a photo of the plant with a description of which part of it is used in cooking · the sensory quality (e.g. lemon-scented? astringent?) · a description of the plant's properties · its origin · the etymology of the plant's name · some links to other sites about the plant There are no recipes here, but everything else you could possibly want to know about the spices is available. There's also a list of spice mixtures (e.g. bouquet garni, garam masala) along with a description of what's contained in each.