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

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Carrying on in the David tradition, she sends us off into the kitchen with a new zest, a wider knowledge and a renewed confidence. Kumud Gandhi is the author of this book on spices and her first book is a compendium of spices, used to create authentic Indian recipes. It will change the way we understand spices and the role they play in defining not only our food but also our place in the world. I would list my qualifications as a smut connoisseur, but it’s probably not appropriate for this site 😉 . The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal.

I teach an undergraduate course on Feast, Fast, and Famine in the Middle Ages because questions about production, consumption, and sustainability are crucially important for us all. The essence of each spice is explored in a brief history peppered with interesting anecdotes and tips, and accompanied by reproductions of surface decoration from Owen Jones’s original book, The Grammar of Ornament.Now, thanks to my love for the books that inspire love, I’m a romance novelist myself, having penned the Trading Heartbeats trilogy. We want to empower you to become as confident cooking with spice blends as you are with salt and pepper!

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.

Spices are rare things, at once familiar and exotic, comforting us in favourite dishes while evoking far-flung countries, Arabian souks, trade winds, colonial conquests and vast fortunes. Paul Freedman asks why there was such a high demand for spices in medieval Europe, examines the practicalities of trade and travel that enabled Europeans to acquire them, the ways they used them as commodities and the cultural meanings of taste and what changes in taste tell us about societal development. I am a cookbook author, editor, local food enthusiast, and the creator of the blog Thursday Night Pizza, where I share weekly recipes and de-snobbify the process of from-scratch pizza for home cooks of all skill levels. TheBookAtWar by Andrew Pettegree is the perfect present for bibliophiles and history buffs alike – a fascinating exploration of the role of books in wartime. There are excellent imaginative connections made, and the book invites thinkers to think deeply and broadly about the meaning of intoxicants in history and in their own lives.