The Spice Routes: Chronicles and Recipes from Around the World Review

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(More customer reviews)I already owned the book and wanted it for a gift - I'm interested in the history of the area as well as the food, and it met expectations. The recipes I've tried, using the processes they recommend, are wonderful. If you like exotic foods, and want to know how they came about, you'll love this book. There's a paperback, but I think it's a sequel, not the same book.

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Combining travelogue and recipes, this book tells the story of how Chris and Carolyn Caldicott followed the trails of the early spice merchants on their search for authentic spice recipes. As they travel through the Eastern Mediterranean, the Indian subcontinent, Asia, Africa and the Americas, they explain how indigenous spices were traded and how foreign spices arrived, and they explore the effect the spices have had on the local cuisines, supplying the recipes for the dishes they discovered along the way. Among their adventures are an encounter with an unscrupulous saffron-dealer in the souk in Aswan, an elephant hike through the jungles of south west Nepal, enrolment at the Thai Cooking School at the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok, and a trek across the Andes to Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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