Spice: A Cook's Companion

Mark Diacono's Spice is a vibrant exploration of flavour, fragrance, and heat that majors on the kitchen, with over 50 spices that will fill your kitchen with a wealth of heady aromas and tastes. It offers over 100 innovative recipes that make the most of your new spice knowledge, with additions throughout from chefs and food writers of whom spices are an integral part of their cooking identity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2022
Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd

Mark Diacono's engaging and self-deprecating voice invites you to follow him into the kitchen, where his book "Spice" takes you on a vibrant exploration of flavor, fragrance, and heat. This comprehensive guide to spices celebrates over 50 spices, filling your kitchen with rich aromas and delicious tastes. Mark Diacono shares his techniques for sourcing, blending, and using spices effectively, enabling you to create mouthwatering dishes that are both rewarding in the process and in the end result. The book focuses on familiar spices like cumin, turmeric, vanilla, pepper, and cinnamon, while also introducing lesser-known spices such as grains of paradise, asafoetida, tonka beans, and passion berries. The recipes range from simple blends to enhance your food quickly to infusing and blooming spices to bring out the best in these treasured ingredients. You will learn about the differences in flavor intensity and provenance and discover how spices can enhance and appreciate cuisines from around the globe. The book begins with a guide to 50 of Mark's favorite spices and blends, followed by over 100 innovative recipes that showcase your new spice knowledge. With contributions from renowned chefs and food writers, including Jos� Pizarro, Honey and Co., Maunika Gowardhan, and Yuki Gomi, "Spice" is sure to inspire and uplift anyone who loves cooking with spices.

Weight: 1174g
Dimension: 186 x 278 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781787136434