{"id":45282,"date":"2014-11-01T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/?p=45282"},"modified":"2014-11-04T15:06:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T23:06:11","slug":"food-matters-the-spice-and-herb-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food-matters-the-spice-and-herb-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Matters – The Spice and Herb Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Spices\"Allspice, cinnamon, cilantro, and dill<\/strong><\/em>. Fairly common herbs and spices in Canadian kitchens these days. But what about asafoetida, fenugreek and galangal? Those are also herbs and spices you may see popping up in your list of ingredients in cookbooks these days. If you\u2019re not familiar with some of these names, I’ve been poring over just the book to help you out.<\/p>\n

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Me and Ian ‘Herbie’ Hemphill<\/p><\/div>\n

The Spice and Herb Bible is quite a weighty tome<\/strong><\/em>. The author of this guide to everything you need to know about herbs and spices is Ian Hemphill. He lives in Sydney, Australia, where he runs a shop called Herbie\u2019s Spices<\/a>. I had heard of this shop before when I was visiting Australia years ago, and when I found out he was going to be in Vancouver at the same time I was, I really wanted to meet him. We met at one of the big spice and grocery shops in Vancouver\u2019s Punjabi Market, which really got him going with all the different goods on display there.<\/p>\n

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\"The

The Spice and Herb Bible, 3rd Edition<\/p><\/div>\n

The book is his way of getting his knowledge out around the world<\/strong><\/em>. The\u00a0Spice and Herb Bible<\/a> had just arrived at my house when my nephew was visiting, who is just getting into cooking, and he picked it up and couldn’t put it down until I had to grab it from him and then I was captivated going from one topic to the other, because it is filled with so much fascinating history and information. Ian\u2019s daughter Kate is a chef, and she provides lots of recipes throughout the book to give you examples of how to use many of the spices found within its pages.<\/p>\n

Ian loved the spice shop we were in.<\/strong><\/em> We were only there for about half an hour, but I could easily have spent the whole day with him, moving our way down the racks and bins of spices, as he had something fascinating to say about practically everything. Here is our conversation<\/a>, presented as an mp3 file for your listening pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Allspice, cinnamon, cilantro, and dill. Fairly common herbs and spices in Canadian kitchens these days. But what about asafoetida, fenugreek and galangal? Those are also herbs and spices you may see popping up in your list of ingredients in cookbooks … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[33,498,34,198,35,524,496,494,495,497,493,499],"class_list":["post-45282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-matters","tag-all-points-west","tag-australia","tag-cbc-radio","tag-cookbooks","tag-don-genova","tag-food-matters","tag-herbie","tag-herbs","tag-ian-hemphill","tag-spice-and-herb-bible","tag-spices","tag-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45286,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45282\/revisions\/45286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}