📚 Spices

Aromatic history: the plants, the trades that priced them, and the flavor they carried across maps.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject spices in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	An herb and spice cook book	Craig Claiborne	1963	12
	The volatile oils	Eduard Gildemeister	1913	11
	Cooking with herbs & spices	Craig Claiborne	1970	10
	The complete book of herbs & spices	Sarah Garland	1979	8
	Ultimate Cook Book	Richard Carroll	2000	8
	Spice	Jack Turner	2004	7
	Herbs, spices, and flavorings	Tom Stobart	1982	6
	The Complete Book of Spices	Jill Norman	1990	6
	Seasoning Savvy	Alice Arndt	1999	6
	Dangerous Tastes	Andrew Dalby	2000	6
	The complete book of herbs and spices	Claire Loewenfeld	1974	5
	Fiery cuisines	Dave DeWitt	1984	5
	Handbook of Spices, Seasonings, and Flavorings	Susheela Raghavan	2006	5
	The Taste of Conquest	Michael Krondl	2007	5
	Florida's best herbs and spices	Charles R. Boning	2010	5
	Spices in the Indian Ocean World	M. N. Pearson	2016	5
	Underexploited Spice Crops	Amit Baran Sharangi	2018	5
	The Penguin Book of Herbs and Spices	Rosemary Hemphill	1966	4
	Creative Cooking With Spices	Jane Walker	1985	4
	The world of spice	Michael Bateman	2003	4
	The Spice Route	John Keay	2005	4
	Out of the East	Paul Freedman	2008	4
	Spices and herbs around the world	Elizabeth S. Hayes	1961	3
	The book of spices	Frederic Rosengarten	1973	3
	The book of herbs & spices	Arabella Melville	1989	3
	Spices	Barbara Beckett	1992	3
	The complete spice book	Maggie Stuckey	1997	3
	Spices	Maryjo Koch	1997	3
	The scents of Eden	Charles Corn	1998	3
	Spice	Christine Manfield	1999	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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