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The Spice Kitchen  by Sara Engra and Katie Luber
‘The Spice Kitchen’ offers more than one hundred delicious recipes for using herbs and spices to add vibrant flavours to your food at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and any time in between. From Spiced Yogurt and Granola Parfaits, to Strawberry Salad with Cinnamon-Balsamic Vinaigrette, Spiced Guacamole, Tarragon Chicken Potpie, Clove Spiced Caramel Corn, and more, this exciting cookbook is full of inventive recipes, information, and tips for using herbs and spices. Best of all, the recipes are easy and fuss free – a must for busy home cooks who want to spend less time in the kitchen and more time at the family table. And with dozens of full-colour photographs and illustrations, ‘The Spice Kitchen’ is as beautiful as it is practical.

Hardback,  208 pp,  $41.95. Buy now

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Spices and Herbs 
Zest it up Using spices and herbsthe key to any delicious mealcan be daunting with so many to choose from, not to mention the many possible combinations. In this book, a master chef and baker unlocks the key to the dazzling world of flavor by showing cooks of every level how to use and combine over 150 of the most popular spices and herbs. She also provides delicious recipes, fun facts, tips on storage, and a resource guide on where to get hard-to-find spices and herbs. The book also includes dozens of easy-to-follow and delicious recipes.

Paperback,  288 pp,  $29.95. Buy now

Herb and Spice Companion  by Marcus A. Webb and Kathryn Hawkins
This book guides the reader through all aspects of herbs, including their history how to grow, harvest, and dry them and their preparation for medicinal use. This volume also contains an extensive directory of more than 50 spices. Each entry gives the essential properties of the spice, as well as its medicinal and culinary uses where appropriate.

Paperback,   $26.95. Buy now

Sticks, Seeds, Pods and Leaves; A Cook’s Guide to Culinary Herbs and Spices  by Elizabeth Hemphill and Ian Hemphill
Sticks, Seeds, Pods & Leaves is an A-Z guide to growing, sourcing and cooking over 80 herbs and spices, and including over 150 simple and modern recipes that show off the unique flavour and fragrance of each herb and spice. Discover how to create Roasted Mushrooms with Ajowan, Cauliflower with Indian Spices, Vietnamese Chicken with Lemongrass, Ras El Hanout Chicken, a hearty Lamb Shanks Tagine, Risotto with Garlic and Fennel, Rosemary Scones, and Lavender Ice-Cream. A lively and engaging book that demystifies the world of herbs and spices, talks about the growing of herbs for keen gardeners, and unlocks some of the mysteries of the ancient spice trade and the way the unique flavours of spices develop after harvesting.

Paperback,  360 pp,  $48.95. Buy now

Five Spices, Fifty Dishes  by Ruta Kahate
Aims to show how to prepare various Indian dishes using five common spices and easily available ingredients. In addition to the 50 recipes, this book also features recipes for desserts and various chais to round out your meal. It also provides various menus to put together a harmoniously flavoured meal

Paperback,  132 pp,  $27.95. Buy now

Spices  by Sallie Morris and Lesley Mackley
This handy guide is a reference to the world of spices, with information on both common and lesser-known varieties. The full-colour A-Z index of 50 spices and aromatic ingredients shows each in all its various forms – whole, ground, dried or fresh – and includes facts about its history, origins, and medicinal and culinary uses. In addition, there are illustrated recipes for over 35 spice blends, from Apple Pie Spice to Kashmiri Masala. The second part of the book offers over 100 classic and contemporary step-by-step recipes from all over the world using both spices and spice mixtures. A section on spices in the home includes how to make scented gifts and decorations, and recipes for aromatic cooking oils, vinegars and a variety of drinks.

Hardback,  264 pp,  $24.95. Buy now

The Little Book of Spice Tips  by Andrew Langley
A desirable gift book and a must for spice fanatics (which is pretty much everybody), at a price that will be hard to resist. The Little Book of Spice Tips has been perked-up with fifty snippets of incredible practicality and wisdom. Avail yourself of the numerous ways in which spices can enhance food as well as their amazing medicinal properties, their enviable ability to transform everyday cocktails and much else. A big spice hit in a little package!

Paperback,  112 pp,  $9.95. Buy now

Spice Notes and Recipes  by Ian Hemphill
Celebrated spice merchant Ian Hemphill explores new frontiers of the spice world. With over 140 delectable new recipes from Ian’s daughter, Kate, herb and spice mixes for the home cook, and the last word on all the herbs and spices used in today’s cooking, ‘Spice Notes and Recipes’ is the master work from Australia’s premier spice expert. Hemphill (aka Herbie) gives a detailed breakdown of how various spices blend together to create the ethnic cuisines that now dominate Australian kitchens and takes us on a tantalising tour of the cultures that have been formed by the influences of the ancient spice trade. ‘Spice Notes and Recipes’ is the complete compendium of herbs and spices for every kitchen.

Hardback,  496 pp,  $59.95. Buy now

The World of Spice  by Michael Bateman
Spices hold the key to the culinary history of the world. This book explores the subtle shadings in provincial spice palettes that represent the complex layering of local cuisines. It combines culinary, botanical and historical information with anecdotes, recipes and food and travel photography

Paperback,  240 pp,  $34.95. Buy now

Spice  by Ana Sortun
The James Beard Award-winning chef of Oleana, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, sheds new light on the use of herbs and spices in flavorful, Mediterranean-inspired cuisine, offering a collection of recipes that are organized according to spice and herb groupings. 25,000 first printing

Hardback,  381 pp,  $48.95. Buy now

The Spice Lover’s Guide To Herbs And Spices  by Tony Hill
A comprehensive guide of its kind in a affordable paperback edition, a gift for seasoned spice lovers and cooks who have a taste for adventure.

Paperback,  432 pp,  $27.95. Buy now

The Complete Book of Herbs and Spices  by Sarah Garland
Sarah Garland describes how to grow and harvest herbs, use herbs in cooking, apply them in healing remedies and as cosmetics and in the house. A comprehensive reference to nearly 300 herbs, lovingly illustrated with watercolours, 300 colour photographs and diagrams.

Paperback,  288 pp,  $48.95. Buy now

The Complete Book of Herbs and Spices  by Sarah Garland
Sarah Garland describes how to grow and harvest herbs, use herbs in cooking, apply them in healing remedies and as cosmetics and in the house. A comprehensive reference to nearly 300 herbs, lovingly illustrated with watercolours, 300 colour photographs and diagrams.

Paperback,  288 pp,  $49.95. Buy now

Dangerous Tastes  by Andrew Dalby
This text offers explores the way trade and the search for exotic spices are woven into human history. The author shows how each region in the history of spice became part of what is now a world-wide network of trade.

Paperback,  212 pp,  $35.00. Buy now

Vanilla  by Tim Ecott
From the islands of Tahiti to the botanical gardens of London and Paris, Vanilla traces the story of the vanilla plant and its secretive trade, from the golden cups of Aztee emperors to the ice-cream dishes of U.S. presidents. Vanilla has mystified and tantalized man for centuries. The only orchid that porduces and agriculturally valuable crop. vanilla can mask unpleasant tastes and smells, but also makes pleasant tastes stronger, smoother, and longer lasting. Because of its over four hundred separate flavor components. choosing premium-quality vanilla beans is as complex as judging the aroma and taste of fine wine. Vanilla finds its way into over half of all dessert products sold worldwide, from ice cream to chocolate mousse, as well as th

Paperback,  278 pp,  $19.95. Buy now

The Spice of Vegetarian Cooking  by Steven Foster and Martha Rose Shulman
Martha Rose Shulman–former food editor with?Cosmopolitan and winner of the Tastemaker Award–brings her expertise to this inspired selection of vegetarian recipes from India, China, Mexico, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Each dish is characterized by its unique combination of spices–the ingredients that have for centuries given ethnic food its distinctive allure.

Paperback,  208 pp,  $15.95. Buy now

The Pepper Trail: History & Recipes from Around the World  by Jean Andrews
Veteran afficionados and newcomers on the pepper trail will enjoy this stunning expanded version of Jean Andrew’s classic Red Hot Peppers, published by Macmillan. Andrews, who has been called “the first lady of chile peppers, ” “the godmother of the chile world, ” as well as her own registered trademark “The Pepper Lady, ” follows the spice trade and early movements of capsicums along the spice roads, through much of Turkey and the Middle East, Africa and Monsoon Asia (India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Indonesia) plus the Szechuan and Hunan provinces in China and the Silk Route. This latest offering includes previously undiscovered facts, including the etymology of the word “cayenne.” The first spice to be used by man, peppers

,  256 pp,  $41.95. Buy now

Pepper  by Christine McFadden
This is the story of the spice that changed the world, with 100 stuning recipes. This is a book dedicated exclusively to the world’s most valued and fascinating spice. Why is it that pepper and certain foods go together so perfectly? (Think steak au poivre, black pepper crisps, cream cheese and black pepper, or even strawberries and black pepper.) Christine McFadden’s evocative collection of recipes from around the world are geared to modern lifestyles and informal eating, inspiring the imagination with unusual ways of using pepper – in cakes and desserts for example – reminding us of pepper’s traditional use in pickles and preserves, in sauces and soups, curries and stews. A vivid first-hand description of the pepper gardens and spice mark

,  192 pp,  $65.00. Buy now

Cooking with Flavor: Spice Up Your Everday Favorites  by McCormick
The name McCormick has been synonymous with flavour. This title includes easy to follow and simple recipes from delicious appetizers to decadent desserts, and satisfying breakfasts to family-pleasing dinners. Every recipe is beautifully photographed. It features flavour variations for many recipes, for a delicious twist on the original dish.

,  176 pp,  $34.95. Buy now