Spice Trip: The Simple Way to Make Food Exciting

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Put some spice in your life with over 100 simple recipes, quick blends and beneficial therapies using chilli, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, cumin and pepper. Stevie Parle and Emma Grazette are on a mission to spice up Britain's kitchens and revolutionise the way we cook with the treasures hidden away in our 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 twenty 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.

Stevie Parle owns Dock Kitchen restaurant in Notting Hill. Previously he worked at The River Cafe, Moro, The Spotted Pig in New York and Salt in Tokyo. Stevie has achieved huge critical acclaim for his creative yet unpretentious and exceptionally delicious cooking. Stevie was Observer Young Chef of the Year 2010, has published two cookery books and writes a weekly column for the Daily Telegraph. Emma Grazette is head development chef at The Spicery in Bath, which supplies spices, blends and recipe boxes to Britain's top restaurants and chefs including The Fat Duck, Rick Stein, Hibiscus, Ottolenghi, Moro, Atul Kochhar, Sat Bains and thousands of home cooks. Emma creates exciting new recipes, spice blends, teas and beauty products from around the world, blogs, writes and organises pop up restaurants in Bath.

An attractive food travelogue...reminds us that spice deserves to be thought of better than as a bunch of jars that don't stack properly * Guardian * These Mexican recipes not only bring a bit of the Acapulco into your winter kitchen, they are perfect for cheaper fish. Most importantly, they are quick to make and don't need any hard-to-find ingredients or hours of prep * Daily Telegraph * Delivers exactly what its name suggests, and more * Jamie Magazine * Spice Trip is a cookery book, but it's rather more than that too. It takes the usual suspects of the spice rack and makes you see them in a new light and appreciate them for the marvels they are * Food Magazine * Simply delicious * Radio Times *