watermint is excellent in salads and teas
When we "cook without heat" and "abandon our reliance on fire", as author Thom Eagle writes in his book of the same name - Summer's Lease, how to cook without heat - it allows us to "capture the bounty of the season" in an altogether different way. Without heat, he writes, we are forced to consider the other techniques of cooking: breaking, salting, souring and ageing.