Large format book cuisines of Indonesia Thailand, India, North Africa, Spain, Mexico Morroco Singapore Tex-Mex. Reader's review: I grew up in Texas, where we eat jalapeños as often as possible, and my parents recently spent a few years living in the London area, where I found the food to be.. not as reliably spiced... So this cookbook was a delight for me, as a British author exuberantly fills pages with the wonder of, "Wow, did you know that you can put peppers in food and make it taste good? This is amazing!" The book has some beautiful photography, with gorgeous full-page shots of completed dishes and less artistic but more practical pictures in the margins to help guide a home cook to the right techniques. The book is short, with only a few sample recipes along the lines of, "Wow! You can put peppers in beans!" and, "Wow! You can put peppers on fish!" but the recipes seem simple and tasty. I don't expect that I will use this book much, as my personal tastes run to the spicy anyway, and I have other cookbooks that just assume a knowledge of peppers, but this is a well-assembled book that should serve as a great introduction for cooks just starting to branch out from their blander comfort foods.