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Spice Trip: The Simple Way to Make Food Exciting
Stevie Parle and Emma Grazette are on a mission to spice up kitchens and revolutionize the way people cook with the treasures hidden away in their cupboards. This book, accompanying the award-winning Channel 4 series, will show just how to bring the magic of spice into your home. Emma and Stevie have been on a journey to all corners of the world to discover the secrets of six essential everyday spices, learning from the world's experts—the people who grow and cook with them every day. In this book they share the best recipes, therapies, and mementoes from their journey. Their recipes are inspired not just by the countries visited on this trip, but from all over the world. Some are hot, some sweet, some subtle, and they're all special, take less than 20 minutes to prepare, and are really easy to cook. And as well as exploring the culinary uses of each spice, Emma also reveals their therapeutic value through the secrets she discovered from the remarkable people she met on her journey. With over 100 thoroughly tested recipes, therapies, and photography from an incredible journey, let Spice Trip transform your cooking and your life from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
304 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2012
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December 22, 2021
I picked this up in a charity shop haul. Didn't see the programme but some lovely recipes very different from the rest. Split in to chapters featuring different spices eg cumin, cloves,nutmeg etc with sweet and savoury dishes.
May 16, 2013
Spice Trip is billed as "the simple way to make food exciting" and is a companion to a British television series of the same name.
In essence, the reader is shown some key spices (chillies, nutmeg & mace, cloves, cumin, cinnamon and black pepper), given the chance to learn about these often under-appreciated spices and provided with a wealth of recipes that let these spices shine within. Despite it being a companion book, you need not have seen the series to still enjoy it and eagle-eyed viewers may notice some differences between the recipes shown in the television series and the book but this is not really going to be an issue.
As you might expect, this is a very photograph-rich book, that makes it a bit of a mystery as to why not every recipe has its own photograph. The "lecture" or overview is not onerous and it manages to pack a lot of information in a relatively short space. The recipes clearly form the bulk of this book and quite right too. Looking through the recipes you find an impressive, diverse range so as long as you don't particularly dislike each and every spice you should be fine. If you fall into that category, maybe this book is really not for you.
It feels that the book publisher Gods have been listening when it comes to presenting the recipes. Well designed, concisely written yet informative text that features dual metric and imperial measures, even an estimation of a typical preparation and cooking time too. Good internal signposting and a great, comprehensive index. Invariably this book won't appeal to everyone, through no fault of its own. However it stands as a good, credible introduction (or reintroduction) to several commonly "misunderstood" spices with a lot of interesting recipes that are suitable for beginners and "experts" alike.
A nice little book. A fun way to learn something new and a great excuse to get in the kitchen and cooking.
Spice Trip, written by Stevie Parle & Emma Grazette and published by Square Peg. ISBN 9780224095723, 304 pages. Typical price: GBP20. YYYY.
// This review appeared in YUM.fi and is reproduced here in full with permission of YUM.fi. YUM.fi celebrates the worldwide diversity of food and drink, as presented through the humble book. Whether you call it a cookery book, cook book, recipe book or something else (in the language of your choice) YUM will provide you with news and reviews of the latest books on the marketplace. //
In essence, the reader is shown some key spices (chillies, nutmeg & mace, cloves, cumin, cinnamon and black pepper), given the chance to learn about these often under-appreciated spices and provided with a wealth of recipes that let these spices shine within. Despite it being a companion book, you need not have seen the series to still enjoy it and eagle-eyed viewers may notice some differences between the recipes shown in the television series and the book but this is not really going to be an issue.
As you might expect, this is a very photograph-rich book, that makes it a bit of a mystery as to why not every recipe has its own photograph. The "lecture" or overview is not onerous and it manages to pack a lot of information in a relatively short space. The recipes clearly form the bulk of this book and quite right too. Looking through the recipes you find an impressive, diverse range so as long as you don't particularly dislike each and every spice you should be fine. If you fall into that category, maybe this book is really not for you.
It feels that the book publisher Gods have been listening when it comes to presenting the recipes. Well designed, concisely written yet informative text that features dual metric and imperial measures, even an estimation of a typical preparation and cooking time too. Good internal signposting and a great, comprehensive index. Invariably this book won't appeal to everyone, through no fault of its own. However it stands as a good, credible introduction (or reintroduction) to several commonly "misunderstood" spices with a lot of interesting recipes that are suitable for beginners and "experts" alike.
A nice little book. A fun way to learn something new and a great excuse to get in the kitchen and cooking.
Spice Trip, written by Stevie Parle & Emma Grazette and published by Square Peg. ISBN 9780224095723, 304 pages. Typical price: GBP20. YYYY.
// This review appeared in YUM.fi and is reproduced here in full with permission of YUM.fi. YUM.fi celebrates the worldwide diversity of food and drink, as presented through the humble book. Whether you call it a cookery book, cook book, recipe book or something else (in the language of your choice) YUM will provide you with news and reviews of the latest books on the marketplace. //
June 16, 2013
Fantastic. My favourite curry ( cinnamon and coconut fish curry) is in here.
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