The Spice Companion
The Spice Companion
80.00
The Spice Companion distills Lior Lev Sercarz's 30 years’ experience with spices into an illustrated guide to 102 spices, with blend and recipe ideas. It was published in November 2016 by Clarkson Potter. 304 pages, with gorgeous embossed cover and ribbon page marker.
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![LIFE CHANGES FAST: With new COVID-19 lockdown restrictions coming into play tomorrow (Wednesday, 25/3), we have taken the decision to stop fulfilling orders while the lockdown orders are in place. Watch this space, and our newsletter, for updates as this fast-moving situation gets a bit clearer for micro online businesses like ours.
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If you choose to place an order during this period, please understand we cannot guarantee when we will be able to fulfil it, and we will keep you up to date on probable shipping dates. Our advice - wander the shelves if you like but order only when we’ve said we are able to ship. We’ll try to improve our website to make this clearer in the coming days. We’re sorry if this is disappointing but we need to keep our focus on the bigger picture.
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Onto cheerier topics: Our thoughts are turning to GARTER STITCH JOY and we’ll have more in that shortly.
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There’s lots we can do to bring a little bit of happy that doesn’t have to do with order fulfilment and shipping. Cookies, a few rows of stitches and soup spring to mind. And coffee. [image: a tiny speck of a moon rising in a violet sky]
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![WHAT TO SAY? Our world has been upended by the virus, and it is tough to know what to do, and say, apart from: be kind, wash your hands, maintain physical distance to keep everybody safe, be kind, be kind, be kind. (You probably don’t need all that toilet paper, especially not all at once.)
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We like to think we have a wee community here at Newtown House, and we want you to know we’re here. We’re hardly an essential service but as long as couriers are moving goods around the place, we’ll be fulfilling orders. We are obsessive about hygiene in the most usual of times, but the advice we get from our couriers is to wash your hands after you’ve opened your packages, because parcels pass through many hands on their way to you. We will halt sales immediately if our health changes - health is the biggest priority for all of us.
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More importantly, we’re trying to figure out what we can do to bring a greater sense of community in a world where we’re now actively keeping our (physical) distance from each other.
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So tell us: what would you like to see more of? Shall we explore the glory of pantry meals together? Or the soothing qualities of garter stitch on endless repeat? Diverting books, music, movies? Ways to show up for each other when we can’t do so in person?
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Today we’ll start by sharing a few of our favourite food-related accounts: @rachelaliceroddy is stuck in lockdown in Rome at the moment but always, always a delightful source of food inspiration. And @jeremyleeqv, chef of a restaurant of our dreams, Quo Vadis in London, which he’s had to shutter for now. And @lizprueitt_tartine who is not just an incredible baker - she’s also an accomplished sewist - talk about overachieving! Now tell us about some of your favourites - and we’ll be back soon with more.
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[image: a small pile of chocolate chunk cookies sent out in what turned out to be the last run for Good Bitches Baking - at least for while.]
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