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Series Summary
Chef Stevie Parle and chef and professional spice blender Emma Grazette are embarking on a vibrant, colourful and spice-filled journey around the world.
Adding spice is the easiest and quickest way to transform a simple dish from mundane to sensational.
Stevie and Emma go to some of the most exotic countries on earth to meet the experts who grow spices and use them every day - visiting Mexico for chilli, Cambodia for black pepper, Grenada for nutmeg, Turkey for cumin, Zanzibar for cloves and India for cinnamon.
As well creating recipes as cooking up amazing food along the way, Emma concocts therapies, beauty treatments and teas using the potent spices.
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Episodes (6)
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In Britain, we think of chillies as hot, but in Mexico they are as varied and complex as wine. Stevie and Emma head to Oaxaca, Mexico…
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Stevie and Emma travel to Zanzibar to rediscover the magic of cloves. They make a mulled wine oxtail stew, and orange, clove and polenta…
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Black pepper is the world's most commonly used - and misunderstood - spice. In a journey through Cambodia, where it is considered the king…
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In Britain we occasionally sprinkle nutmeg on rice pudding; but in Grenada the spice is so ever-present it features on the national flag.
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In Britain, we know cumin as a spice used in curries and kebabs, but in Turkey it flavours everything from pizzas to delicious pistachio…
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Stevie and Emma visit the southern Indian state of Kerala, where many families grow cinnamon trees in their gardens and use the spice with…
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