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Sign up todayThe Book of Spice
From Anice to Zedoary
Narrator
Kyle Tait
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Length
8 hours 34 minutes
Language
English
A tasty compendium of spices and a fascinating history and wide array of uses of the world’s favorite flavors―The Book of Spice: From Anise to Zedoary reveals the amazing history of spices both familiar and esoteric. John O’Connell’s erudite chapters combine history with insights into art, religion, medicine, science, and they’re richly seasoned with anecdotes and recipes.
Discover why Cleopatra bathed in saffron and mare’s milk, why wormwood-laced absinthe caused eighteenth-century drinkers to hallucinate, and how cloves harvested in remote Indonesian islands found their way into a kitchen in ancient Syria. Almost every kitchen contains a bottle of cloves or a stick of cinnamon; almost every dish, a pinch of something, whether chili or cumin. The Book of Spice is culinary history at its most appetizing.
John O'Connell is an experienced writer who currently writes for The Times, Guardian, New Statesman, and National. The author of For the Love of Letters, he currently resides in London.
Kyle Tait is a professionally trained voice actor and narrator whose first brush with a microphone came from sports radio. To pass time during the off-season, he began voicing audiobooks and went on to narrate full-time. When not narrating, he can be found moonlighting for the sports world. He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.