If your idea of kicking up a dish is using salt and pepper, there’s a rich and fabulously varied world of spices waiting to be discovered. Mace, coriander, mustard seed, fennel, saffron, and paprika don’t have to be those scary, untouchables on the supermarket shelf. Cooking with spices can actually be fun, interesting, enjoyable and, most of all, delicious. Using spices will vastly improve your cooking and make you feel, finally, in command of your kitchen.

Colorful spices from around the world enrich today's cuisines with incomparable flavors and aromas.

Here you will find the best books about spices, beautifully illustrated and lovingly researched exploration of herbs and spices: their history, cultivation and uses, both familiar and forgotten.

  The Dance of Spices

A new classic on adapting authentic Indian seasonings and techniques to today’ s American kitchen Indian cuisine has finally come into its own in the United States, as evidenced by the