The Science of Spice: Understand Flavor Connections and Revolutionize Your Cooking

Fascinating look at spices and herbs and how they work together in a practical way.Highly recommend!

Very comprehensive, has tons of information and spice mix recipes

A beautiful text book. Dense.

Super useful book to have as a home cook. Also works great as just a coffee table book

Good for those who want to cook with spices effectively and try different flavor combos. It is unique in how it explains what works together. So if I want to make my chilli more earthy or smoky, I know which spices would add that to the ones I have in there now. Its very detailed in how tnis is explained. I have followed too many bland recipes, and want to be able to add flavor on my own. I've learned that you have to know about the spices you use, or you can screw up and waste a bunch of time. I'd rather experiment with some knowledge base to work from. The section on releasing the flavor for each spice is a big deal for me b/c if you don't do that right then not much else is gonna work for you. Its nice to have one book that I can quickly reference to remember what to do with the spices I'm cooking with at the time. Other books seem inconsistent on that info or they embed it in a paragraph that I have to read. I found that I knew some spices had to be sauteed in oil, but not which ones. I've already learned more about how to use bay leaf. Recipes often don't tell you to bruise leaves or keep them whole or dry roast some seeds before using them. This may sound extreme, but this has helped me work towards a good carrot cake recipe. All the recipes out there are so bland. I have to bake a lot of cakes to come up with the right combo of cinnamon, nutmeg, c!ove, allspice and maybe some mace. Even though I bake with them, this is helping me distinguish what the differences really are between the Allspice, nutmeg and mace and if I need them all. I still use other books b/c this doesn't have as much practical cooking tips and NO HERBS. I don't get that. I'm wondering if there's another book to follow cuz I often mix fresh herbs in with dried spices.

This would make a great gift - we’re getting extra copies! Beautiful photos. Interesting concept and well thought out. Great information on the spices as well as some recipes to try - but it’s more about the facts less about the recipes. A great find!

GREAT GUIDE ON SPICE AND HERBS!!!I LOVE THE ONE WITH THE FLAT BINDER THE MOST.

Great book, beautiful guides and easy to understand. I bought a couple as gifts. Great reference book for anyone with a kitchen 😀.