What is The Difference in Herbs and Spices in the Kitchen?
Spices and herbs are different in that herbs are usually edible leafy green plants are shopped up small (usually) and used primarily for flavoring purposes in dishes. Food spices on the other hand are generally ground up into a powder. The parts of the plant are different in that often you see it being taken from dried seed, bark, root, fruit, or some other part of the plant generally not real good for eating alone. This imparts a great deal of flavor to the dish, drink/culinary teas, or canned goods that uses it. Cooking spices have been used for cooking seasoning since the beginning of time. Who knows, Eve, in the garden of Eden, may have scraped some bark off a cinnamon tree to sprinkle on the apple the apple she was eating? Never know! Just kidding, but really, you can look back the Biblical days even and see that they were used quite often. In the book of Genesis, very early on, we get the story of Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers to spice merchants. Overall, cooking
