This is a fiery and delicious collection of chilli-inspired recipes for all occasions, featuring more than 180 photographs. It includes 175 tongue-tingling recipes for chilli-lovers everywhere. There are delicious dishes from all over the world including Thailand, Korea, Mexico, India, Italy, Spain and more. It features exciting and exotic ingredients in innovative recipes: try Rice Seaweed Roll with Spicy Squid, Oxtail in Hot Tangy Sauce, and Serrano Chilli and Spinach Salad. It offers food for any occasion: soups and appetizers; fish and shellfish; chicken, meat and vegetables; rice and noodles; side dishes; and, relishes and pickles. It contains step-by-step instructions, clear photographs and detailed advice to help every cook. It also offers nutritional information for each recipe to help you maintain a balanced diet. Used world-wide for centuries, chillies have become a much-favoured and essential ingredient in modern cooking. This book collects together 175 flaming recipes from across the world, all designed to bring excitement to your cooking. Tantalizing dishes from across the globe are featured in this fiery collection. There are scorching soups from the Mediterranean, spicy shellfish from South-East Asia, red-hot rice from Central America, tempting tagines from North Africa, mouthwatering marinated meat from the Caribbean and many, many more. Whatever the occasion or time of day, you are sure to find something to whet your appetite in this sizzling selection of tried-and-tested recipes. Easy-to-follow step-by-step recipes and colourful final photographs make this the perfect book for any chilli-loving cook. Whether a beginner or more experienced, this is an essential cookbook for anybody who likes their food on the fiery side of spicy.

In Super Roots, Tanita de Ruijt showcases over 60 exciting ways to use herbs, spices, roots and barks in the most delicious ways for optimum health. Taking inspiration from the East - predominantly Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, China - Tanita aims to reinvigorate those traditional recipes that have sustained people healthily for centuries.

With chapters exploring the notion of balancing taste and flavour, food as therapy and meals to combat those times when you are feeling tired, bloated, sick or hungover Super Roots offers a new, functional yet delicious approach to food that will leave you feeling restored, satisfied and happy - no diets, just nourishing, flavour-led recipes using everyday ingredients. From the detoxifying Ginger Mapo Tofu to the tangy notes of the Turmeric Flu Busting Broth, these recipes are guaranteed to refresh your mood and brighten your day.

Embrace the ancient healing power of plants with more than 100 whole-food, plant-based, gluten-free herbal recipes, as well as mindfulness and holistic lifestyle practices, designed around the most common health concerns of modern women. Did you know you have access to a potent and sophisticated apothecary-right in your own kitchen? Plants, specifically herbs and spices, have been used for centuries as part of holistic healing traditions around the world to promote health, longevity, and beauty. And as more people become afflicted with chronic stress-based conditions, from inflammation and food allergies to anxiety and depression and menstrual irregularities, a whole new generation is rediscovering nature's power for long-term wellness. In Root & Nourish, wellness experts Abbey Rodriguez and Jennifer Kurdyla teach women how to incorporate plant medicine into everyday life through food and self-care. Organized into three areas of health concerns prevalent in women today-digestion, mental health, and female reproductive hormonal health-these affordable, seasonal, and sustainable recipes, drawn from Western herbalism and Ayurveda, are designed to help you curate a personalized herbal apothecary that will serve you for a lifetime. Inside you'll find dishes including: - Thai Peanut Stir-Fry with Tofu to tackle gut health - Heartwarming Vegan Chili to promote mental health - Adaptogenic Chocolate Chip Cookies for female reproductive health Once you come to learn which ingredients offer you the nourishment you need, whether in the moment or to support chronic conditions, you will understand your body-and yourself-as you never have before: as nature intended.

This title includes sizzling recipes to fire up your cooking and wake up your tastebuds. Here's how to put the zest into your cooking with red hot spice-filled recipes for all occasions. You can discover an exciting new world of tongue-teasing tastes. It offers a fiery collection of 30 recipes from around the globe, with step-by-step techniques and photos throughout. It features classic hot recipes such as Chilli Con Carne, salsas and Chicken Vindaloo, as well as ideas for using spices in new and inspiring ways. How to make the most of spices in appetizers, soups, fish, poultry, meat and vegetarian dishes, as well as a useful spice checklist. In all their forms, spices lend richness, heat and complexity to every food imaginable. From the sun-drenched Caribbean to the bustling food stalls of Thailand, 'hot and spicy' defines good eating for millions of people. Within the pages of this book, you will find an exhilarating collection of recipes from every corner of the world, from the fiery heat of Jamaican Spiced Cod Steaks, to the eye-watering North African Vegetable Couscous with Saffron & Harissa. Every dish is shown step-by-step, so it is easy to achieve perfect results. With 30 recipes and 100 vibrant photographs, this sizzling collection will delight everyone who loves tasty food.

This encyclopedia is not only a practical cookbook but also an expert kitchen reference. It includes preparation and cooking techniques, and information on storage containers and equipment. Over 50 spices are shown in their various forms - whole, ground, dried or fresh. Their aroma, taste, culinary and medicinal uses and cooking tips are also listed. In addition, there are illustrated recipes for more than 35 spice blends, from Kashmiri Masala to Apple Pie Spice. Last but not least there are over 100 wonderful recipes from soups and starters through beef, lamb and pork to preserves and chutneys.

Intoxicating and evocative, vanilla is so much more than a spice rack staple. It is a flavor that has defined the entire world--and its roots reach deep into the past. With its earliest origins dating back seventy million years, the history of vanilla begins in ancient Mesoamerica and continues to define and enhance today's traditions and customs. It has been used by nearly every culture as a spice, a perfume, and even a potent aphrodisiac, while renowned figures from Louis XIV to Casanova and Thomas Jefferson have been captivated by its aroma and taste. Featuring recipes, facts, and fables, Vanilla unravels the delightfully rich history, mystery, and essence of a flavor that reconnects us to our own heritage.

THE BEST GARDENING BOOKS OF THE YEAR - GARDENS ILLUSTRATED 'Informative and enthusiastic' i Paper PLANT-BASED MEDICINE FOR A CALMER, HEALTHIER LIFE It's easy to turn to the pharmacy when we're stressed, sick or feeling under the weather, but what if you turned to your garden instead? In this accessible and easy to use manual, horticultural expert, former Gardener's World presenter and Guardian columnist, Alys Fowler, shows how to take control of your health by adopting a more natural lifestyle. For thousands of years, people who had no access to clinical medicine knew how to boost their well-being by using the ingredients they found in plants. Herbs are the people's medicine; often freely available and abundant, they are ready and waiting to be plucked from around you to soothe and heal your body and mind. With guides for how to use and grow over 100 herbs - for example how to use fennel for indigestion, camomile for anxiety and nettle for hayfever - you'll soon be heading into the garden, rather than opening the medicine cabinet. Offering a fusion of botanical, practical, cultural and historical information, A Modern Herbal reveals how common herbs are the simple, cleansing way to better health and happiness. 'An important and accessible herbal for the 21st century . . . For anyone delving into herbs for the first time or those who want to broaden their herbal repertoire in the garden and home, this book is much needed' Gardens Illustrated AS SEEN IN THE GUARDIAN

This handy guide is a comprehensive reference to the world of spices, with authoritative information on all the common and lesser-known varieties. The A-Z index of 50 spices shows each in all its various forms - whole, ground, dried or fresh - and includes facts about its history, origins, and medicinal and culinary uses. The second part of the book offers over 100 classic andcontemporary step-by-step recipes from all over the world using both spices and spice mixtures. A section on using spices in the home shows you how to make scented gifts and decorations, and features recipes for aromatic cooking oils, vinegars and a variety of drinks.