The Complete Spice Book

by Maggie Stuckey

Book Overview

Provides more than two hundred spice-enhanced food recipes, as well as recipes for potpourris, beauty aids and health remedies, and includes an A-to-Z spice encyclopedia that features spice lore and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312201311
• ISBN13: 9780312201319
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

This would be a great shower or wedding gift

This is a very quick and enjoyable read. It is clear almost to the point of being textbook, but with a humor that makes it fun rather than dry. Each spice gets a chapter. Infomation on each spice includes history and legend, current medicinal uses, crafts and household uses, as well as other interesting factual tidbits about the spices such as the coffe rituals of Arab cultures. And, of course, there are recipes that you can nearly taste as you read them. I checked this out of the library and now I am buying it for my own reference collection of cookbooks. It would be a great gift for anyone who cooks (or wants to learn).