The Science of Spice

East Asia 59 SPICE PALETTE Eastern Chinese cuisine is a contrasting mix of flavours determined largely by the varying terrain. I ...

60 World of Spice LOCAL SPICE BLEND Five-spice powder Yes, you can buy this in any supermarket, but homemade is truly a million ...

East Asia 61 The Silk Road introduced the Sichuan region to less familiar spices brought by travellers from neighbouring western ...

62 World of Spice To Asia To Asia Two-way traffic Spices travelled in both directions between continents. Cloves, pepper, and ci ...

The Americas 63 Cusco La Paz Lima Santiago Panama Acapulco In the 17th century, spices that arrived here from Asia were sent ove ...

64 World of Spice When European explorers went looking for the Indies, they found instead the Caribbean Islands. Centuries of em ...

The Americas 65 The range of spices used in everyday Mexican and Central American dishes is as complex as the region’s historica ...

66 LOCAL SPICE BLEND Chimichurri A popular fresh spice and herb sauce, widely served with sausages and steak. 1 tsp chilli powde ...

67 Ranging across nine different countries, the Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. Ancestral influence, convergence betwe ...

68 World of Spice European settlers brought a limited range of spices with them to North America, mainly as a way to preserve fo ...

The Americas 69 From the Gulf of Panama to the tip of Patagonia, the vast coastline of South America naturally draws from its wa ...

70 World of Spice London GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE SPAIN PORTUGAL European empires Competition between the nations of Europe to contr ...

Europe 71 Oslo Istanbul Alexandria Venice Amsterdam The 17th century was Amsterdam’s Golden Age – its wealth was based on Bruges ...

72 World of Spice The clean, refined fare of the Nordic countries has some of the most distinctive spicing in all of Europe. Mos ...

Europe 73 SPICE PALETTE Bitter orange powder is made from the dried peel of Seville oranges, and imparts a sour citrus flavour. ...

74 World of Spice “ French cooking tends to draw heat from garlic and pepper, but chillies feature in Basque and Provençal dishe ...

Europe 75 Brought back from the Americas by Columbus in the late 1400s, sweet and chilli peppers are inescapable in this region. ...

76 World of Spice Italy played a key role in the story of spice when the Republic of Venice dominated the trade from the 8th to ...

Europe 77 The food of these eastern Mediterranean and former communist states is far from spice heavy, and Greek food in particu ...

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