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Transform your dishes from bland and boring to punchy and flavorsome with this definitive guide to spices. This book on spices is designed to help you really get to grips with spices, their characteristics, health benefits, and their practical uses in cooking. This radical essay explores patriarchy and capitalism’s impact on beauty ideals, and inspires us to embrace our own disobedient bodies. Whether you're a fan of spice seeking to experiment with new flavor combinations, or simply a beginner-level home cook looking to advance your knowledge on all things spice related, this is a must-have volume also doubling up as a great coffee table book for the whole family to love.
The book really is a reference, one that will help cooks decipher the use of herbs perhaps not known to them. From alligator pepper seeds which, in the Yoruba culture, are given to newborn babies to taste a few minutes after birth, to charoli seeds, which are used in traditional Indian sweets eaten during the festival of Holi, and caraway seeds, which were added to medieval love potions, each spice has its own significance in the lives of the people who use it. This book is wide-ranging and general in its treatment of alcohol, as well as several other drinks and spices. Ein übersichtliches Buch, liebevoll fotographiert, das alles Wissenswerte über Gewürze beschreibt und zugleich eine Reise um die Welt bedeutet.It inspired geographical and commercial exploration ,as traders pursued such common spices as pepper and cinnamon and rarer aromatic products, including ambergris and musk.
From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans stopped sniffing tobacco and starting smoking it, Schivelbusch looks at how the appetite for pleasure transformed the social structure of the Old World. For quite awhile I have wanted a book that would explain the herbs and spices and what they were used in and how to use them. I'm a decent home cook and have gotten some basic techniques down, but I'm pretty lost when it comes to herbs and spices unless I'm following a recipe.Discover a spice book like no other from TV personality, food scientist and bestselling author, Dr Stuart Farrimond. A photographic catalog of more than forty-five familiar and exotic spices accompanies a wealth of information on culinary, domestic, and medicinal uses and applications of spices. This series from DK is designed to help you perfect your cooking with practical instruction - and the science behind it. Turning off the personalized advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive.
The story of spice is really the stories of human relationships, from growers and traders to cooks and explorers, all starting with a tiny seed. As much a visual feast as it is an opportunity to gorge on history, dream up flavour combinations and expand your knowledge … each spice has its story, opposite exquisite illustrations and designs. 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. The book is my favorite kitchen companion and I have owned a copy for many years and referred to it often and as of late have been making quite a study of herbs that I have yet to savor.Can't fault any part of the transaction so big thanks to the Seller for a smooth and pleasant transaction. To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.
There are also many non encyclopedic sections such as recipes for making common herb/spice preparations. 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. This is a beautifully illustrated book dealing mostly with Asian Spices, formulated by Burns Phillip, an Australian spice wholesaler. I’m just starting my journey as a dark romantasy smut peddler but can’t wait to share all my winged book boyfriends with you!There are recipes for creating original spice blends, for marinades, for every course, and for using every type of meat—or none. TheDeorhord by Hana Videen is a fascinating collection of medieval creatures large and small, and a delightful dive into Old English. I'm looking for books that will help me develop intuition around what herbs and spices to use and how much.
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