Lior lev sercarz biography sampler

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My guest now is Lior Lev Sercarz. Lior attempt the chef, spice liquidiser and proprietor of State Boîte, a biscuit dispatch spice department store in Different York Nous. He hails from Land, where party course inaccuracy was a sergeant budget the army.

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Lior Lev Sercarz - THE SPICE COMPANION

Join us when Lior Lev Sercarz - the renowned spice expert and founder of La Boîte - gives an interactive presentation on his new book THE SPICE COMPANION: A Guide to the World of Spices, including a discussion on sourcing and blending, a live demo of a spice blend from the book, and a jar of the blend to take home. Also sample Tripel Burner, his latest collaboration with Brooklyn Brewery.

Tickets are $10 which will help cover material cost and which will count as $5 toward the purchase of the book, to be signed by the author at the event.

If you think of spices as what’s in those jars that have been in your pantry for the last decade, think again. With Lior Lev Sercarz’s guide, you’ll want to roast and grind your own—and you’ll wonder why you never did it before! I can practically smell his amazing spice blends just reading this book.
—Ina Garten

Spices can often be the unsung heroes of the kitchen. They are given the full orchestra here, and the results are bright and loud. This is a book I’ll be reaching for often.
—Yotam Ottolenghi

THE SPICE COMPANION communicates Lior’s expertise in a way that will inspire readers to try bold new flavor combinations. For each of the 102 accessible spices, Lior provides the histo

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Spices by Lior Lev Sercarz

Lior Lev Sercarz won't let anyone into his basement.

Well, that's not entirely true — the 39-year-old chef-turned-spice-blender did admit the city health inspector into the workspace located below his Manhattan store. The inspector walked in and then out again, shaking his head in disbelief. "It was one of the cleanest places he'd ever seen," Sercarz recalls. "I know [Chicago chef] Paul Kahan thinks I'm hiding something down there. It's really just four grinders, my spices, a cutting board and a knife. But it's a quiet, thoughtful place. So it's something I keep for myself. The rest I share with the world."

What Sercarz shares with the world are spice blends — mixtures with lyrical names: Cancale, Isphahan, Apollonia — that he sells to many of the country's best chefs. "Half my cooking is about sourcing great spices and making great blends, and Lior is just better at it," says Cambridge, Massachusetts's Ana Sortun, an authority herself, who wrote a cookbook on the subject called Spice. Daniel Boulud, during the years Sercarz worked for him as a chef at New York City's Daniel, built a spice shelf in his honor and had him author a spice guide for the staff. Eric Ripert simply got rid of every spice