Global Spices for Everyday Cooking

Spices can transform a meal into a feast for the palate and add surprising flavours to your dishes. Before they became available to everyone, spices were the ingredients that inspired explorers and global trade. The ground pepper you add to your salad was once worth its weight in gold!
This richly illustrated handbook provides a wealth of knowledge about organic spices, their cultivation, their storage, and how to use them when cooking. Sorted by their different flavour notes, from mild and harmonic to spicy, the organic spices are each presented in a short profile, followed by more than one hundred appetising recipes for every taste and occasion.
AUTHOR: Sarah Golbaz studied food design in Brussels and has worked in events management and gastronomy. She runs a blog dedicated to spices: www.epicee.de Pharmacologist Hellmut Wagner founded Wagner Gewurze, a company specialising in importing and marketing spices and dry mushrooms, in 1977. The company is nowadays one of the leading organic food brands in Germany. SELLING POINTS: . Discover the whole world of organic spices from different regions of the world . Offers interesting background information, versatile uses and innovative recipes on each spice . Structured by taste sensation and intensity 80 full-colour illustrations