The Complete Book of Spices: A Practical Guide to Spices & Aromatic Seeds

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All the recipes in the book are tried and tested hundreds of times through the cookery school and fine dining catering experience Kumud and her team have delivered over the years. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centers that host Etsy. John O’Connell’s erudite chapters combine history with insights into art, religion, medicine, and science, and is richly seasoned with anecdotes and recipes. I’m a professor at Northland College (WI) and an American environmental historian with specialties in wine, food, and horticulture.

She is the award-winning designer of sumptuous best-selling cookbooks by Nigella Lawson, Yotam Ottolenghi and Sam and Sam Clark of Moro. It covers all the classics, but it also describes many regional favorites that an adventurous cook might want to try. The first half of the book is all about spices, and this is where you can really get to know your spices and understand, how, when, and where to use them. This book is a wealth of information and beautiful photographs, organized to be both easily used and inspiring.This book would be a "must" for the adventurous cook venturing into the unknown waters of Arab and Asian cooking. O'Connell's easy charm and flair for narrative make for an entertaining look at the seeds, roots, barks, and other plant components that today we look on as everyday flavourings but at one time started wars and launched explorers. If you're looking for a book to help you start using herbs and spices so you can cook wisely and not have to guess - this is the book for you! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The demand for spices in medieval Europe was extravagant and was reflected in the pursuit of fashion, the formation of taste, and the growth of luxury trade.

Winner of the 1991 International Association of Cooking Professionals award, this book presents an A to Z guide to familiar and exotic spices.Die Autorin liefert für Asafötida bis Zitwerwurzel kulturgeschichtliche und warenkundliche Steckbriefe … ein hilfreicher Wegweiser durch die aufregend exotische, oft aber auch rätselhafte Welt der Gewürze.

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