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The Nutmeg Trail Eleanor Ford

The Nutmeg Trail By Eleanor Ford

The Nutmeg Trail by Eleanor Ford

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

The Nutmeg Trail Summary

The Nutmeg Trail: A culinary journey along the ancient spice routes by Eleanor Ford

Award-winning writer Eleanor Ford's recipes and stories explore how centuries of spice trading and cultural diffusion changed the world's cuisine. A unique and enlightening guide to cooking with spice, the book looks at their flavour profiles and how they can be used, combined and layered - how some bring sweetness, others fragrance, heat, pungency, sourness or earthiness.
There are 80 spice-infused recipes in this collection following the trails of ancient maritime trade through Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Iran and the Emirates. Eleanor combines historical research with a travel writer's eye and a cook's nose for a memorable recipe. Interwoven are stories that explore how spices from across the Indian Ocean - the original cradle of spice - have, over time, been adopted into cuisines around the world.

The Nutmeg Trail Reviews

Eleanor Ford is a cook and a historian, a culinary detective and, as she says, a gastronomic archaeologist. What a deep dive this is into the world of spice. It's a deep-dive, a culinary history, a spice library, anatomy and miscellany. And then the recipes! Recipes which allow the reader to travel from Asia to the Middle East along the spice route, taking in so much flavour and so much context on the way. It's the green coconut hot sauce from Somalia first up for me, followed by the green peppercorn asparagus from Thailand. Yotam Ottolenghi

A fascinating and evocative journey along the spice routes, the 'central nervous system of the world'. The author's blend of history, geography, taxonomy and enticing recipes offers a fresh look at these small, potent ingredients that bring magic to our kitchens. Fuchsia Dunlop, author of The Food of Sichuan

The eclectic collection of recipes from across the world will make the reader want to head straight into the kitchen to conjure up heady meals to share with their family and friends. Anissa Helou, author of Feast: Food of the Islamic World

In The Nutmeg Trail, Eleanor Ford takes us on a mouth-watering culinary voyage to the fabled 'spiceries', those semi-mystical islands of the East Indies. A heady blend of history, adventure and deliciously authentic recipes, this book will make you hungry! Giles Milton, author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg

A fascinating, transporting read, packed full of intriguing recipes I can't wait to try. Felicity Cloake, Guardian food columnist and author of Perfect, The A-Z of Eating and One More Croissant for the Road

The Nutmeg Trail offers a historical account of the spice trade with invaluable advice on the use of culinary spices - how to prepare and combine them, when to introduce them, and what delights to expect. Mouth-watering. John Keay, historian and author of The Spice Routes
'A fragrant, intoxicating and mesmerising voyage into the history and global spread of spice. With recipes every bit as delectable as the prose.' Tom Parker Bowles, British food writer and food critic

About Eleanor Ford

Eleanor Ford is a British cook and food writer. Having lived in Indonesia and Hong Kong, she set off to travel and learn about the world's food cultures and traditions. Her first book, Samarkand, was named a book of the year 2016 by The Guardian and Food52. It also won the Guild of Food Writers Award for Food and Travel 2017. Her second book, Fire Islands, received two Gourmand World Cookbook awards; was named 'Food and Drink Book of the Year' at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards; won Der Deutsche Kochbuchpreis Bronze; and was awarded the Regional Cookbook first prize at The Guild of Food Writers Awards 2020. Eleanor now lives in London with her young family and an unreasonable collection of spices.

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NGR9781922351531
9781922351531
1922351539
The Nutmeg Trail: A culinary journey along the ancient spice routes by Eleanor Ford
Eleanor Ford
New
Hardback
Murdoch Books
2022-05-17
256
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