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

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This masterful A to Z of flavours charts human conflict and ultimate interconnectedness from the middle ages to the early twenty-first century. I also love the recipes it gives you from cooking to creating spice mixtures like curries and pickling. I'm looking for books that will help me develop intuition around what herbs and spices to use and how much. I just read this book from cover to cover and helped my mom identify a couple of spices we have at home and a few awesome uses for them (Black cardamom? 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.

A look at the richness and variety of spices and their uses, this text contains an identification guide, recipes drawn from all over the world and also offers information on the domestic and medical use of spices. When appropriate the book discusses the available varieties(cinnamon and peppers get this treatment). Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels.Crowned as the Spice Queen by BBC Broadcaster Nick Coffer, Kumud is the founder of “ The Cooking Academy in Rickmansworth” Kumud has cooked for a range of high-profile clients such as King Charles 111 (when he was HRH the Prince of Wales), The Oxford Union, the Palace of Westminster, and many A-list celebrities. If you've ever wondered why some spices taste stronger than others or how to make your own personal garam masala, The Science of Spice has all the answers!

I am looking forward to seeking out some of the more obscure herbs for my garden and steaming up the kitchen trying recipes! I was swept away by Turner’s erudite approach to spice history and his work has been an inspiration to me. There are recipes for creating original spice blends, for marinades, for every course, and for using every type of meat—or none. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal.TheNotebook by Roland Allen is a gorgeously illustrated cultural history of the humble notebook, from the bustling markets of medieval Florence to the quiet studies of our greatest thinkers. AllThatSheCarried by Tiya Miles is an eye-opening social history of love and resilience, and an insightful testament to the people who are left out of the archives.