Packed with ideas for enjoying and using spices, Spice is much more than your average recipe book. Mark Diacono shares the techniques at the heart of sourcing, blending and using spices well, enabling you to make delicious food that is as rewarding in the process as it is in the end result. Focusing on the familiars including cumin, turmeric, vanilla, pepper and cinnamon, Spice will also open the door to some lesser-known spices such as grains of paradise, asafoetida, tonka beans and passion berries.

The recipes build on bringing your spices alive – whether that’s creating blends to easily enhance your food when short of time on a weekday evening, or in infusing and blooming spices to bring out the very best of these treasured ingredients. The reader will become familiar with the differences in flavour intensity and provenance and discover how, through the use of spice, we can applaud and appreciate cuisines from around the globe.

Beginning with a guide to 50 of Mark’s much-loved spices and blends, the book then 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, including José Pizarro, Honey and Co, Maunika Gowardhan and Yuki Gomi, Spice is sure to inspire and uplift.

Other cookbooks by this author

• Abundance - Eating and Living with the Seasons
• Abundance - Eating and Living with the Seasons
• Chicken & Eggs (River Cottage Handbook No. 11)
• Ferment: From Scratch: Slow Down, Make Food to Last
• The Food Lover's Garden: Amazing Edibles You Will Love to Grow and Eat
• Fruit (River Cottage Handbook No. 9)
• Grow & Cook: The Ultimate Kitchen Garden Guide
• Herb: A Cook's Companion, from Plot to Plate
• Herb: A Cook's Companion
• The New Kitchen Garden: How to Grow Some of What You Eat No Matter Where You Live
• River Cottage A to Z: Our Favourite Ingredients, & How to Cook Them
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• Sour: More Than Mere Taste: The Magical Element That Transforms Your Cooking
• Sour: The Magical Element That Will Transform Your Cooking
• The Speedy Vegetable Garden
• Spice: A Cook's Companion
• A Taste of the Unexpected: How to Grow and Cook with Remarkable Fruit, Vegetables, Nuts, Herbs, and Flowers
• Veg Patch (River Cottage Handbook No. 4)
• Vegetables - Easy and Inventive Vegetarian Suppers
• Vegetables - Easy and Inventive Vegetarian Suppers
• A Year at Otter Farm: Inspiring Recipes Through the Seasons
• A Year at Otter Farm