The World's Best Spicy Food

Discover the wide world of spice. One word, a million different thrills. Lonely Planet Food, the world's leading travel publisher's new food imprint, delivers the world's most tastebud-tingling flavours direct to your kitchen.

Travel can transform your cooking, exposing you to new mouth-zinging ingredients that you may not have even heard of before. But, when there is so much world to explore in terms of food, The World's Best Spicy Food comes in with a hand-selected collection of the world's most sensorially thrilling culinary experiences to try at home.

Explore the cultures behind the planet's spiciest dishes, from Thai som tom, Indian dahl, and Korean kimchi, to Peruvian ceviche, Caribbean curries, and Nashville hot chicken. And it doesn't stop with chilies-there are pungent, nose-clearing recipes with wasabi, mustard, horseradish, cinnamon, paprika, mace, piccalilli, and black, white, pink, and Sichuan pepper. These are dishes to make your tongue punch the air with elation, loaded with flavours that kick-start the palate and infuse every sense with joy.

Each of the 100 recipes includes easy-to-use instructions and mouth-watering photography, plus an 'origins' section detailing how the dish has evolved. There are also tasting notes that explain how best to sample each dish - whether that's in a hawker market in Singapore or at a Louisiana picnic spread - to truly give you a flavour of the place.

This book is a celebration of spice in every form: ingredients that turn the bland to brilliant, the dreary into divine. And, as with all food, it's the finest way to experience any foreign culture. This is real food, pulsing with vibrancy and delight, bringing a truly happy tear to one's eye.

Recipes include:

Black-Pepper Crab - Singapore
Bunny Chow - South Africa
Camarones a la Diabla - Mexico
Caribbean Curry Goat - Caribbean
Ceviche - Peru
Chorizo - Spain
Crab with Kampot Pepper - Cambodia
Creole Cau Cau - Coastal Peru
Doro Wat - Ethiopia
Fi? Paprikas - Croatia
Fish Head Curry - Singapore & Malaysia
Five-Alarm Texas Chili - USA
Gekikara R?men - Japan
Gong Bao Chicken - China
Goulash - Hungary
Groundnut Soup - Ghana
Jamaican Jerk - Caribbean
Jambalaya - USA
Jollof Rice - West Africa
Kashgar Lamb Kebabs - China
Klobasa - Central Europe
Kothu Roti - Sri Lanka
Ostras Picantes - Guinea-Bissau
Palm Butter - Liberia
Papas a la Huancaína - Peru
Pasta all'arrabbiata - Italy
Pepperpot - Guyana & Caribbean
Pho - Vietnam
Pica Pau - Portugal
Pickled Herring in Mustard Sauce - Norway
Pig Trotter Curry - India & Nepal
Pimientos de Padrón - Spain
Piri-piri chicken - Mozambique
Samosas - India
Shakshouka - Tunisia
Souse - Caribbean
Thai Green Curry - Thailand
Vindaloo - India
Harissa - Tunisia
Lime Pickle - India, Pakistan & Bangladesh
Pepper Jelly - USA
Piccalilli - England
Salsa Xnipec - Mexico
Plus 57 more exhilarating recipes!!

About Lonely Planet Food: Food and drink is a huge part of the travel experience, and Lonely Planet has been scouring the globe for over 40 years to find the best places to sample authentic dishes and beverages when on the road. From street food to Michelin-starred restaurants, Lonely Planet's experts have tried it all. Now, through Lonely Planet Food, we're sharing our knowledge and passion for genuine local cuisine with food-lovers everywhere, bringing a taste of the world into your kitchen.