The Spice Companion

Name: The Spice Companion
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781101905463
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A Guide to the World of Spices: A Cookbook

By Lior Lev Sercarz

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The Spice Companion by Lior Lev Sercarz is an inspiring guide for both novice and experienced cooks, emphasising the transformative power of spices. The book offers insight into over a hundred spices, complete with pairing suggestions and recipes that elevate everyday cooking. This intricately detailed work serves as both a culinary reference and a creative inspiration.
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Format: Hardback

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You might enjoy this book if you're passionate about culinary adventures and love experimenting with flavours. It offers an insightful journey through a world of spices, providing expert tips on how to enhance your cooking with unique blends and combinations. Whether you're a seasoned chef or a kitchen novice, this guide is perfect for anyone eager to elevate their culinary creations.

The Spice Companion

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A sumptuous and definitive spice guide by the country's most sought-after expert, with hundreds of fresh ideas and tips for using pantry spices, 102 never-before-published recipes for spice blends, gorgeous photography, and breathtaking botanical illustrations.

Since founding his spice shop in 2006, Lior Lev Sercarz has become the go-to source for fresh and unusual spices as well as small-batch custom blends for renowned chefs around the world. The Spice Companion communicates his expertise in a way that will change how readers cook, inspiring them to try bold new flavour combinations and make custom spice blends.

For each of the 102 curated spices, Lev Sercarz provides the history and origin, information on where to buy and how to store it, five traditional cuisine pairings, three quick suggestions for use (such as adding cardamom to flavour chicken broth), and a unique spice blend recipe to highlight it in the kitchen.

Sumptuous photography and botanical illustrations of each spice make this must-have resource—which also features debossing on the front cover, an orange-stained book edge, and a silver ribbon marker—as beautiful as it is informative.

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The Spice Companion by Lior Lev Sercarz is lauded for transforming the way one understands and uses spices in the kitchen. Critics praise the book for Sercarz's deep expertise, encouraging readers to freshen their spice routines with creative ideas and practical tips. It is considered an essential guide, making spices the star of culinary endeavours, backed by endorsements from notable chefs and publications that stress its inspiring and educational qualities.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781101905463

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 November 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Clarkson Potter

Illustration: 400 4C PHOTOS, 100 ILLUSTRATIONS T/O

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 236.0mm

Height: 261.0mm

Weight: 1644g

Pages: 304

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Cook Books & Recipes Cooking & Food Lior Lev Sercarz Non-Fiction Penguin Books

About the Author

Lior Lev Sercarz is the chef and owner of La Bo te, a destination spice shop in New York City. After attending culinary school in France, he worked for multiple Michelin-starred chefs before turning to his true passion- helping cooks everywhere embrace new flavors. His spices are sold online and in many boutiques, including ABC Carpet & Home and Eataly. He lives in New York City with his wife and their children.