The Nutmeg Trail

‘As fragrant as it is fascinating’ – Tom Parker-Bowles, Daily Mail’s Best Books for Cooks 2022.

Interspersed with divine recipes and stories, Eleanor Ford’s latest cookbook, The Nutmeg Trail, is a fascinating culinary exploration of spices, showing how centuries of spice trading and cultural diffusion changed the world’s cuisine. This cookbook is perfect for fans of Yotam Ottolenghi, Fuchsia Dunlop, John Keay and Romy Gill.

Eleanor Ford is known for her award-winning cookbooks Samarkand and Fire Islands. In her latest cookbook, Eleanor now presents a unique and illuminating guide to cooking with spices, as she follows the trails of ancient maritime trade through Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Vietnam, Thailand, China, Sri Lanka, India, Iran and the Emirates.

The Nutmeg Trail is an enhanced look at the flavour profiles we use in cooking to add something to a dish. Eleanor investigates how spices can be used, combined and layered – how some bring sweetness, others fragrance, heat, pungency, sourness, or earthiness to create something truly unique.

Chapters and recipes are divided by spice – by the fire and thunder of ginger and peppercorns, floral petals and bark, chilli, lime and lemongrass, earthy cumin and coriander, plus complex spice blends.

Please note! This book is in English