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Hot and Spicy

Hot and Spicy

by Marlena Spieler

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Hot & Spicy is not just another chilli cookbook but a guide to preparing hot foods that will add cumin, gingerroot, horseradish, mustard, black and Szechuan peppercorns and Japanese wasabi powder to your culinary inventory. It explores the cuisines of China, the Middle East, Africa, Mexico, Hungary, Italy, Latin America, Thailand, Portugal, the United States, France,Poland. India and other countries where hot cookery is prized.

Whether it's a hearty traditional dish, a one-of-a-kind interpretation of a classic, or an innovative, carefully thought-out cuisine combination, each exotic and assertively seasoned recipe features a hotness rating mild, medium and hot - to help you avoid disappointing (or burning) your taste buds.

With dishes ranging from the mildly piquant to the fire-starting, Hot & Spicy shows you how to transform any dish into a culinary adventure tempting the uninitiated to the joys of hot food and reaffirming all hot-food lovers' enthusiasm.

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Original Publisher
Tarcher
Date of publication
1985
ISBN
0586209883

Recommended by

Jane Middleton

Editor and writer

A prolific, UK-based Californian writer, Marlena Spieler has a gift for describing the sensual aspects of food. This book covers spicy dishes from China to Chile, Poland to Portugal, and is just the thing for when your taste buds are feeling a bit jaded.