Spice Odyssey

by Cariema Isaacs

Overview

From the author and chef of Cooking for my father in My Cape Malay Kitchen, comes a cookbook that chronicles her adulation and reverence for spices. Cariema Isaacs’s affinity for spices emanates from her Cape Malay heritage and time spent cooking and baking in her grandmother’s kitchen in Bo-Kaap, the Cape Malay Quarter in Cape Town. Thus, at a very early age she understood the tastes derived from cumin and coriander, the pungency of fennel, cloves and star anise, and the piquancy of chilli powder, cayenne pepper and masala blends. Spice Odyssey showcases a multitude of beautifully written recipes with some familiar spices from her Cape Malay heritage and fresh aromatics from her travels to India, Turkey, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and the Middle East.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781432309954
Publisher:	Penguin Random House South Africa
Publication date:	04/01/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	27 MB
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About the Author

Cariema Isaacs is a South African food writer, chef and entrepreneur based in Dubai, where she attained her culinary diploma at the International Centre for Culinary Arts. A marketing graduate, Cariema currently works for a multinational company, and she maintains that it’s the ever-changing landscape of this environment that fuels her culinary creativity and love for writing. She is an active blogger on social media and has already published three cookbooks. Her first, Cooking for My Father in My Cape Malay Kitchen (2016) is a heartfelt tribute to her late father, inspired by her recollections of growing up in Bo-Kaap, the Cape Malay Quarter of Cape Town, South Africa. This was followed by Spice Odyssey (2019), which was nominated for the Gourmand Culinary Awards 2020 in the category of Spices. Cariema went on to write Curried (2021), which she joyfully attributes to her insatiable love of curries. Cariema teams up with her husband and ardent photographer, Turhaan Samodien, who she credits for bringing Modern Cape Malay Cooking to life through his evocative photography. They reside in Dubai with their sons Tawfeeq and Tashreeq.