Website review: Welcome to Gernot Katzers Spice Pa...
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•7 reviews since Sep 23, 2005
cooking, spices
•uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/index.html
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pocketuniverse rated 4 months ago- great place for info on 117 different spices
- SalT rated 14 months ago
- Depth and breadth about spices. From the page: "solid information on (currently) 117 different spice plants. Emphasis is on their usage in ethnic cuisines, particularly in Asia; furthermore, I discuss their history, chemical constituents, and the etymology of their names. Last but not least, there are numerous photos featuring the live plants or the dried spices."
- yanavf rated 19 months ago
- I don't really like to cook, but the person who serves me nicely spiced food can claim a special place in my heart :) Who says that only men's love goes throught the stomach?
- LallaHabiba rated 20 months ago
- In depth info on any spice you can think of! Great site!
- Ambrosia rated 20 months ago
- I'm a spice divani, so this is the place for me... though it doesnt look all too technical, it goes quite in depth
- iniyan rated 25 months ago
- This is an amazing page at many levels. First, it is an extensive compendium of information on spices. Each entry describes the plant, how it is used, its origin, the etymology of its name, its aroma and chemistry (the author is a chemist), and a brief but usually interesting discussion. Second, the entries refer to the names of the plant in several languages, usually in native unicode font, as well as in phonetic notation, and transliterated roman alphabet. Third there are extensive indices based on name (in many languages), geographic origin etc. Fourth, the author has painstakingly tweaked the pages so that they can be viewed with "any browser", and lovingly documented the technical details. Best of all, the author has traveled to many of the regions where the plants originate and are used widely, and it shows. Some of the detail is such that you will not find it any book or library. You had to have eaten a meal in the backstreet eateries or homes of India or Sri Lanka or whatever place to have known it. Here is an example discussion about curry leaves and how they are used in various dishes. All this by one person. Very impressive. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in spices. My curry "tree", smuggled into the country two years ago in a water bottle as a wee sapling with barely ten leaves, has struggled through two dark northern winters, and is defiantly still thriving!
- Agelaius rated 28 months ago
- This site doesn't look that impressive until you dig in and see just how detailed the information is. From the site: "On these pages, I present solid information on (currently) 117 different spice plants. Emphasis is on their usage in ethnic cuisines, particularly in Asia; furthermore, I discuss their history, chemical constituents, and the etymology of their names. Last but not least, there are numerous photos featuring the live plants or the dried spices." The information is indexed in a number of different ways and some of the world's most popular spice mixtures are described. Site available in English and German. Image: Ceylon cinnamon
