Our Next Theme is SPICES
We Are Now Accepting Subscribers for the November 2024 Box (Spice Themed)
READ IT AND EAT ™ BOX
Our boxes come bursting with culinary adventure
Our boxes include:
✓ A great food-focused book to curl up with
✓ Delicious food treats (from a small business, never Amazon)
✓ A donation to fight hunger in Buffalo, NY
We are currently accepting boxes for our SPICE BOX which ships November 2024
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We Are Currently Accepting Orders for Our Spice Box
This Box Ships in November 2024
What's Inside Our Spice Box
Read [Food Writing Path]
Spice: The History of a Temptation
In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era--from ancient times through the Renaissance--when what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood.
Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have magical properties and were so valuable that they were often kept under lock and key. For some, spices represented Paradise, for others, the road to perdition, but they were potent symbols of wealth and power, and the wish to possess them drove explorers to circumnavigate the globe--and even to savagery.
Following spices across continents and through literature and mythology, Spice is a beguiling narrative about the surprisingly vast influence spices have had on human desire.
Includes eight pages of color photographs.
One of the Best Books of the Year: Discover Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle
Read [Fiction Path]
The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique by Samantha Vérant
A talented chef discovers how spices and scents can transport her--and, more importantly, how self-confidence can unlock the greatest magic of all: love--in this perfectly seasoned new novel by Samantha Vérant.
Kate Jenkins doesn't believe in fate. She believes in a clear vision, meticulous planning, and hard work in order to achieve her culinary dreams. On the cusp of opening her own Parisian restaurant, Bistro Exotique, she isn't even concerned when her standoffish--and annoyingly sexy--neighbor dismisses her as a crazy American tourist or when she meets the wildly eccentric Garrance, the self-proclaimed Spice Master of Paris, who ominously warns her of the previous owner's failures.
Confident and optimistic, Kate keeps calm and cooks on. Until a series of unfortunate events derail her plans and her entire staff quits.
Kate is about to throw in the kitchen towel on her lifelong dream when Garrance offers to use her mastery of scents and spices to help her, but it comes at a price: Kate must work with Garrance's son, Charles, a world-class chef and total jerk. After Kate hesitantly concedes to the deal, she slowly learns to open her heart and mind to new concepts, not quite sure if the magic she's experiencing comes from Garrance's spices, from within herself, or from the growing chemistry with Charles. One thing is certain, though: her kitchen is getting increasingly hot.
Read [Cookbook Path +$15]
The Science of Spice by Dr Stuart Farrimond
Explore the world's best spices, be inspired to make your own new spice blends, and take your cooking to new heights.
Break new ground with this spice book like no other, from food scientist and bestselling author Dr. Stuart Farrimond. Taking the periodic table of spices as a starting point, explore the science behind the art of making incredible spice blends and how the flavor compounds within spices work together to create exciting layers of flavor and new sensations. Spice is the perfect cookbook for curious cooks and adventurous foodies.
Eat
To live up to the Spice Box's name, we're giving you three unique spices: Berbere, Harissa, and Za'atar.
Za'atar:
Complex, zesty, tart, and floral. With sumac, sesame, cumin, and herbs, it's a quintessential spice mix of the Middle east. Try it on roasted vegetables, savory yogurt sauces, or mix with olive oil to brush on flatbread.
Berbere
Hot and aromatic with a touch of sweetness, "Berbere" literally translates to "hot". It goes great with lamb or lentil dishes, but for an easy treat try it sprinkled on some popcorn.
Rose Harissa
Widely used and beloved throughout the Middle East, Harissa is a North African spice and condiment that is particularly popular in Tunisia for vegetables, meat, eggs and breads.
Fight Hunger
$5 from every box sold is being donated to the Massachussets Avenue Project. Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP) is a nonprofit urban farm located on Buffalo's West Side.
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