The nutmeg trail : a culinary journey along the ancient spice routes / Eleanor Ford ; editor: Kay Halsey ; photographer: Ola O. Smit.

ISBN:

9781922351531

Title:

Author:

Ford, Eleanor, author.

Personal Author:

Ford, Eleanor, author.

Physical Description:

255 pages : colour illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

General Note:

"A culinary journey along the ancient spice routes." -- Front cover.

Maps on endpapers.

Contents:

How spice changed the world -- Cultural diffusion along the spice routes -- Golden nutmegs: the rise & fall of spicy excess -- Cooking with spice --The first spice -- Black gold -- Fragrant & floral -- The fiery important -- Lime leaues & lemongrass -- Earthy notes -- Spice crescendo.

Subject Term:

Spices -- History.

Spice trade -- History.

Cooking (Spices)

Added Author:

Halsey, Kay,

Format:

Regular print

Publication Date:

2022

Publication Information:

Crows Nest, NSW :

Murdoch Books Australia,

2022.

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Summary

Award-winning writer Eleanor Ford's recipes and stories explore how centuries of spice trading and cultural diffusion changed the world's cuisine.

Author Notes

Eleanor Ford is a food writer and a cook who uses food as a means to explore culture and understand the world. A 'culinary detective', as Yotam Ottolenghi describes her. She is the winner of numerous awards, including an Edward Stanford Travel Writing award and three Guild of Food Writers awards, the most recent of which she won for her third book, The Nutmeg Trail. Alongside writing about food, Eleanor gives talks about it across the globe including regular lectures on spice for The Smithsonian. She lives in London. @eleanorfordfood

'Eleanor Ford's passion shines through her beautiful and picturesque writing.' Guild of Food Writers Awards