In unseren verwilderten Garten, an Feldrainen, in Wald und Wiese wachsen sie, unsere heimischen Krauter und Wildgemuse. Sie besitzen nicht nur erstaunliche Heilkrafte, sondern liefern auch vitaminreiche, schmackhafte Krautergerichte. Das, was vor unserer Haustur wachst und von uns oft als lastiges Unkraut" angesehen wird, sind oft Delikatessen ersten Ranges. Und sie sind - abgesehen von den Zutaten - zum Nulltarif" in der Kuche verwendbar.

The premise is simple: with five common spices and a few basic ingredients, home cooks can create fifty mouthwatering Indian dishes, as diverse as they are delicious. Cooking teacher Ruta Kahate has chosen easy-to-find spicescoriander, cumin, mustard, cayenne pepper, and turmericto create authentic, accessible Indian dishes everyone will love. Roasted Lamb with Burnt Onions uses just two spices and three steps resulting in a meltingly tender roast. Steamed Cauliflower with a Spicy TomatoSauce and Curried Mushrooms and Peas share the same three spices, but each tastes completely different. Suggested menus offer inspiration for entire Indian dinners. For quick and easy Indian meals, keep it simple with "5 Spices, 50 Dishes."

Add variety and spice to your life with spices and condiments. What would a kitchen be without the distinctively aromatic smell and taste of different spices, bringing out the flavours of almost any type of cuisine imaginable? Spices add piquancy, tang and flavour to food and are versatile ingredients in all forms of cooking. This book unearths a whole new world of hot and pungent Indian and exotic spices. It gives a detailed account of their origin, cultivation, chemical composition, medicinal and culinary uses. The book also discusses at length the use of various spices in different cuisines of the world like Japanese, Chinese and French. So pick up this book and discover the myriad varieties of spices which enhance the pleasure of eating.

According to Pauline Adema, you smell Gilroy, California, before you see it. In "Garlic Capital of the World," the folklorist and culinary anthropologist examines the role of food and festivals in creating a place brand or marketable identity. The author scrutinizes how Gilroy, California, successfully transformed a negative association with the pungent bulb into a highly successful tourism and marketing campaign.

This book explores how local initiatives led to an iconization of the humble product in Gilroy. The city, a well-established agricultural center and bedroom community south of San Francisco, rapidly built a place-brand identity based on its now-famous moniker, "Garlic Capital of the World." To understand Gilroy's success in transforming a local crop into a tourist draw, Adema contrasts the development of this now-thriving festival with events surrounding the launch and demise of the PigFest in Coppell, Texas. Indeed, the Garlic Festival is so successful that the event is all that many people know about Gilroy.

Adema explores the creation and subsequent selling of foodscapes or food-themed place identities. This seemingly ubiquitous practice is readily visible across the country at festivals celebrating edibles like tomatoes, peaches, spinach, and even cauliflower. Food, Adema contends, is an attractive focus for image makers charged with community building and place differentiation. Not only is it good to eat; food can be a palatable and marketable symbol for a town or region.

Wunder Workshop founders, Zoë and Tom, present their exploration of healing root spices including turmeric, ginger, galangal, ashwagandha and maca.

As well as reviewing the scientific literature and presenting research in a simple yet informative manner, the pair tell their unique story of discovering first turmeric then other super roots. They reveal ways that these superfoods can be incorporated more readily in everyday meals.

Organised by type of dish, Zoë and Tom reveal the alchemy of roots, their health benefits and where they come from before moving onto recipes that enhance your mood, encourage a healthy gut and, most of all, taste good!

There are tonics and elixirs, snacks, main meals and topical recipes to keep you looking and feeling good, inside and out. These recipes are designed to be functional while remaining super simple and fun. There is everything from a golden beetroot latte, ginseng root tea, turmeric granola, immune-boosting broths and maca bliss balls, plus burdock tea tonic, topical solutions for a brightening face mask and even an Ayurvedic anti-anxiety bath soak.

Bring more vibrancy and magic to the food you love with these incredible super root spices.

Other titles in this series include: Super Pulses and Super Grains, Nuts & Seeds.