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

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This is an incredible book. It includes encyclopaedic information on all the most common spices and most of the rare ones. Not only does it include a description of their flavour and aroma but of their cooking and medicinal uses as well.

The book starts with the history of spice trade (in a brief review of about 6 pages) and ends with a basic recipe book so that you can put your spice knowledge to work.

I greatly recomend the cinnamon cookies recipe at the end of the book.

As an extra it also contains recipes for mixing spices in order to produce curries, quatre epicees, sambal trassi, nam prik and many other as well.

This is a must for any spice loving kitchen.

Living in an Asian country, this book has been a tremendous help in identifying the huge variety of spices available in local markets. I find the presentation of the different ways the spices are prepared (powdered, whole, dried, fresh etc...) to be most helpful. I really recommend this book!!

Informative text, bright, clear photograph of spices and aromatic seeds. Briefly describes their cultivation and uses. An excellant reference on spices from around the world with comments on the history of the spice trade as well as more than one hundred recipes demonstrating their uses

The book is much better than what I expected it to be, but I found it weird it was dedicated at the first page! I don't remember that being detailed. I still loved it, and I gave it to a friend who loved it even more. So everything just great, very pleased!