Herbal Cuisine, which combines the proportion of food and medicine is becoming more popular, but its future depends on customers education and regulations to insure safety.
Almost all the cuisine around the world use herbs in one or the other form , and in many parts of the world there are restaurants which just specialize in Herbal cuisine .With growing number of fast food outlets and people conscious towards health makes the Herbal Cuisine more significant and clearly it has a very good scope.
Herbal cuisine around the world has a long history, one explanation of its origin is that, gathering food in the wild, and ancients found that some plants could be prepared as food as wells as being used to cure disease. These special plants with the combine nature of food and medicine are seen as the basis for Herbal Cuisine.
According to historical records, the first profession chef of herbal cuisine appeared in the Chinese emperors Palace over one thousand years ago, with the country’s social development; herbal cuisine has gradually become accessible and popular among ordinary people.
The Chinese use more that five thousand kind of herbs for their medicines and that shows the secret behind their long and healthy life. By 1990’s many big city’s around the world have been hit by a fever for Herbal Cuisine. “Serving Herbal Cuisine” has been adopted as a marketing strategy by many restaurants as well as those in the Five Star Hotels.
The traditional herbal cuisine has for a long time placed excessive emphasis on its curative effects and neglected the culinary pleasure for diners.Under such guidelines herbal cuisine dishes were not appetizing at all and indeed the medicinal taste kept many diners away. But today many restaurants use herbs in the most effective form to produce delicious dishes, keeping in mind the medicinal and nutritive value of the herbs.
In China restaurants specialize in Herbal Cuisine has patented “100 - Herb Banquet” that includes over two hundred dishes, the work in such a way that the best combination of medicine and diet is achieved. But many people just refuse to try a medicinal diet due to their misunderstanding that a medicinal diet is a kind of medicine, but today many great chefs use their skills and innovation to meticulously prepare herbal cuisine where more attention is given to the taste of the food. When one considers herbal cuisine as a complete disease curing medicine, the result is always unhappy. “Herbal cuisine can only play a supportive role in safeguarding health”.
In India today, the art of culinary and the food lovers community has increased dramatically, for example here in coimbatore, South of India. There is a huge and great market for Organic vegetables, there are people who pay double or triple the amount for the organic food. Which shows their concern and importance given to health and diet. In today’s busy world, where less time to dine and where people sticking to work and dine policy, where more are becoming more health conscious .Starting a Herbal cuisine restaurants will have a great scope and good business. That to in Coimbatore, a restaurant specializing in herbal cuisine will attract more customers. – very big market with huge potential.
More on Herbs and some dishes with herbs in the next post
