Eleanor Ford

The world's obsession with spices is a long one and in this more global age it is relatively easy get hold of even quite obscure flavourings. However this wasn't always the case and at times in history spices became literally worth their weight in gold.
In this book Ford weaves the story of spices around an exploration of their flavour profiles and illustrates with some wonderful sounding recipes. As a cookbook I feel it works well but I am less convinced by the academic slant in terms of the history and geography. The photographs are wonderful though!… (mehr)